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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wearisome \wea"risome\, a.
   causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a
   wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
   1913 webster

         these high wild hills and rough uneven ways
         draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --shak.
   1913 webster

   syn: irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying;
        vexatious. see irksome.
        1913 webster -- wea"risomely, adv. --
        wea"risomeness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
irksome wea"risomely wea"risomeness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wearisome
     adj : so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
           boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the
           deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play";
           "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker
           who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome
           task the writing of long letters is"- edmund burke;
           "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of
           a cricket"- mark twain; "other people's dreams are
           dreadfully wearisome" syn: boring, deadening, dull,
            ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome
see also:
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow 
tedious tiresome 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
91 moby thesaurus words for "wearisome":
   herculean, aggravating, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, black,
   bleak, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome,
   crushing, dark, dismal, disturbing, draining, drear, drearisome,
   dreary, effortful, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome,
   fatiguing, forced, funebrial, funereal, galling, gloomy, grave,
   gray, grim, grueling, harassing, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy,
   hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating,
   killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful,
   pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome,
   plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, saturnine, solemn, somber,
   sombrous, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful,
   stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tiresome, tiring,
   toilsome, tormenting, tough, triste, troublesome, troubling,
   trying, uphill, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, weary,
   wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny





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