tiresome

from 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}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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

    

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