tiresome
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈtaɪərsəm/
:
tedioso
- The lengthy meeting was tiresome and left everyone feeling drained.
- get tiresome
- become tiresome
- a little tiresome
Not only are they tiresome to listen to, they can be mean.
- Not only are they tiresome to listen to, they can be mean.
- Nothing, just dear leader And I I just think that that's so tiresome that it it demands, you know, an alternative.
- Being a touring act, I think like just not having regularity in your schedule really is, is tiresome.
- And that's also tiresome because so many people don't fully understand narcissistic abuse.
- It gets really tiresome to listen to this and this can really ruin the time for your children and you can't win.
- The second one was just a little tiresome because we're seeing it through our main girl's point of view and she's talking to us and giving us all of this information.
Examples
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Her constant complaining about the weather became increasingly tiresome over the weekend.
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Listening to the same song on repeat can be quite tiresome after a while.
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Come on, this is getting tiresome now.
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Oh, really, this is becoming quite tiresome.
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- This is growing tiresome.
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Volunteers often complain of long and tiresome meetings, which sometimes achieve very little.
Academic text (1995) -
Farming is difficult and tiresome, and the financial rewards are poor
Academic text (1995) -
I find this tiresome, Marion.
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My mission here is to put to an end the tiresome squabbling between your brother and you.
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Lady Cunard can be so tiresome.
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
643
4.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it feels boring
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
92
3.2
To make you feel very tired
87
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
80
2.9
Making someone feel annoyed or impatient
25
1.0
Making you feel tired after a lot of activity
22
5.3
Very annoying and hard to bear
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
15
4.6
Lasting longer than needed and feeling tiring
14
6.5
So boring that you stop paying attention
14
5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
7
3.5
Not interesting or exciting
6
7.4
Making you feel annoyed or bored
5
8.1
Not interesting and making you feel bored
3
3.2
Not interesting or exciting
2
7.0
Makes you feel tired or bored because it is repetitive
1
6.9
Making something feel very dull and boring
1
5.4
Making you feel tired and worn out
Not interesting to watch, read or listen to
Causes people to lose interest because it is dull
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tiresome comes from the verb tire, meaning 'to make tired', plus the ending -some, which means 'full of' or 'causing'. So, something tiresome makes you feel tired, bored, or annoyed.