Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome. synonym: boring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to tire; exhausting the strength; fatiguing: as, a tiresome journey.
- Exhausting the patience or attention; wearisome; tedious; prosy.
- Synonyms and
- Tedious, Irksome, etc. See
wearisome . - Dull, humdrum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
fatigue orboredom ; wearisome.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
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Examples
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The incidents of what she describes as a tiresome life have taught her the value of masculine frankness -- ultra-masculine, I call it.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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Also tiresome is the occasional foreboding advice dispensed by an astral deity called the Moon Lady.
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(I think Family Guy is a truly awful show, but I can tell you why in tiresome detail.)
Mission Statement Impossible Jaime J. Weinman 2004
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I’m sorry, this is just plain tiresome; I have had root canals that were less tedious.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures 2010
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Your desire to work on ways to push people in their thinking about books without being tiresome is something I’ve struggled with for a long time.
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We are certainly sure they come across that way to someone whose argument is witless, humourless, unoriginal, lazy and just plain tiresome.
Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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We are certainly sure they come across that way to someone whose argument is witless, humourless, unoriginal, lazy and just plain tiresome.
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom Hal Duncan 2007
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One of the linchpins of what I've described as the tiresome argument is the question of what it means to be human.
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One of the linchpins of what I've described as the tiresome argument is the question of what it means to be human.
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But the fact that the people for whom primarily it was written have taken it to their hearts and have it on their lips ought to have prevented it being called tiresome by a senator of France.
Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891
slumry commented on the word tiresome
causing fatigue or boredom
July 22, 2007