wearisome
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wearisome \Wea"ri*some\, a.
Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a
wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
[1913 Webster]
These high wild hills and rough uneven ways
Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying;
vexatious. See {Irksome}.
[1913 Webster] -- {Wea"ri*some*ly}, adv. --
{Wea"ri*some*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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