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Tiresome definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TI'RESOME, a. Wearisome; fatiguing; exhausting the strength; as a tiresome day's work; a tiresome journey.
1. Tedious; exhausting the patience; as a tiresome discourse. The debates in congress are said to be sometimes very tiresome.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, wearisome]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1520 wearisome, tedious <a tiresome lecture> • tiresomely adverb • tiresomeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 wearisome, tedious. 2 colloq. annoying (how tiresome of you!). Derivatives: tiresomely adv. tiresomeness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tiresome Tire"some, a. Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. -- Tire"some*ly, adv. -- Tire"some*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone or something as tiresome, you mean that you find them irritating or boring. ...the tiresome old lady next door... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Wearisome, fatiguing, irksome, tedious, humdrum, dull. 2. Laborious, arduous, hard, toilsome, troublesome, difficult, uphill.

Moby Thesaurus

aggravating, annoying, bland, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, common, commonplace, difficult, disagreeable, disturbing, draining, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, flat, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, humdrum, hypnotic, importunate, importune, insipid, irking, irksome, irritating, jading, killing, matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, onerous, oppressive, ordinary, pedestrian, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plain, poetryless, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provoking, punishing, soporific, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tedious, tiring, toilsome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, trying, unembellished, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unpleasant, unpoetic, unromantic, vapid, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny