wearisome

wearisome
    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}]
    

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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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