Tiresome

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tiresome
       adj : 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}, {wearisome}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiresome":
     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