tiresomely
1
5.5
- adverb
- /ˈtaɪərsəmli/
:
tediosamente
- Reading that long report was tiresomely dull, and I struggled to stay focused.
Examples
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She complained that the meeting dragged on tiresomely for hours without any real decisions.
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Humans are tiresomely naive.
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Meanwhile, your refusal to take responsibility for your own statements is just as tiresomely bizarre as the statements themselves.
Blog text (24) -
For them, live performance is not the normal condition of art but a tiresomely inconvenient alternative to consuming art on demand.
Academic text (2010) -
But our circle of musicians can be so tiresomely dudeful in so many ways that I can only partially engage in it...
Blog text (9) -
At the risk of sounding tiresomely redundant, I must point out that such palliative measures should not be required in the first place.
Fiction book (1998) -
You're sounding tiresomely Biblical.
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This sounds tiresomely experimental, but actually, I think it did allow me to impart a huge amount about Churchill and Kennedy in relatively short works—and in an intriguing way.
Blog text (24) -
Suddenly, his father's decades-long tirade about the folly of using incompletely understood snake biocomps wasn't just tiresomely amusing.
Fiction book (2001) -
The lecture was delivered so tiresomely that several students fell asleep.
Synonyms
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3.0
In a way that makes people feel bothered
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4.4
In a way that makes you feel annoyed because things are slow or difficult
3
2.7
In a way that makes people lose interest
3
5.8
In a long, boring way that repeats the same things
3
6.6
In a very annoying or frustrating way
2
4.2
In a way that annoys or makes someone uncomfortable
1
6.2
In a dull, repeated way that is not interesting
In a dull, boring way that makes people lose interest
In a boring way that does not keep people's attention
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tiresomely comes from tire ('to make tired'), the same root as tired, plus -some ('causing') and -ly (makes it an adverb). So tiresomely means 'in a way that makes you tired', which is why it describes something boring or annoying.