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[syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tiresome
adj 1: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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