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Wearisome definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WEARISOME, a. [from weary.] Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; as a wearisome march; a wearisome days work.
Wearisome nights are appointed unto me. Job 7.

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: 15th century causing weariness ; tiresome • wearisomely adverb • wearisomeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. tedious; tiring by monotony or length. Derivatives: wearisomely adv. wearisomeness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wearisome Wea"ri*some, a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak. Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See Irksome. -- Wea"ri*some*ly, adv. -- Wea"ri*some*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as wearisome, you mean that it is very tiring and boring or frustrating. (FORMAL) ...a long and wearisome journey... Sympathising with him eventually becomes somewhat wearisome. = tiresome ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Tedious, tiresome, fatiguing, annoying, weary, vexatious, trying, humdrum, prosy, monotonous, uninteresting, irksome.

Moby Thesaurus

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