Meaning of TIRESOME
| Pronunciation: | | 'tIrsum
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, uninteresting, wearisome |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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