Wearisome

3 definitions found

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

  Wearisome \Wea"ri*some\, a.
     Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a
     wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
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           These high wild hills and rough uneven ways


           Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak.
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     Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying;
          vexatious. See {Irksome}.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Wea"ri*some*ly}, adv. --
          {Wea"ri*some*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wearisome
       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}, {tiresome}]

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

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "wearisome":
     Herculean, aggravating, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, black,
     bleak, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome,
     crushing, dark, dismal, disturbing, draining, drear, drearisome,
     dreary, effortful, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome,
     fatiguing, forced, funebrial, funereal, galling, gloomy, grave,
     gray, grim, grueling, harassing, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy,
     hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating,
     killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful,
     pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome,
     plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, saturnine, solemn, somber,
     sombrous, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful,
     stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tiresome, tiring,
     toilsome, tormenting, tough, triste, troublesome, troubling,
     trying, uphill, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, weary,
     wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny