'Tiresome' definitions:
Definition of 'tiresome'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Tiresome'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tiresome'
From: 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