What does tiresome mean?
Definitions for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some
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Princeton's WordNet
boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective
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"
Wiktionary
tiresomeadjective
Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
Eventually his long stories became tiresome.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tiresomeadjective
Wearisome; fatiguing; tedious.
Etymology: from tire.
Since the inculcating precept upon precept will prove tiresome to the reader, the poet must sometimes relieve the subject with a pleasant and pertinent digression. Addison.
Nothing is so tiresome as the works of those criticks who write in a dogmatick way, without language, genius, or imagination. Joseph Addison, Spect. №. 253.
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tiresome
Tiresome refers to something or someone that causes annoyance, irritation, or fatigue due to being repetitive, monotonous, excessively long, or difficult to deal with. It often refers to tasks or circumstances that are boring, uninteresting, or overly demanding, leading to mental or physical tiredness.
Webster Dictionary
Tiresomeadjective
fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse
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Anagrams for tiresome »
timorese
rosetime
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tiresome in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tiresome in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of tiresome in a Sentence
She painted leftists as somehow victims in all this, which is such a tiresome trick the left plays when people they don't like are in power. The image she paints of anyone who's not in her camp is one of brutality and violence that's such a tired trope yet it's actually dangerous. She's advocating for a more dramatic return to tribalism and that'll do nothing to cool the temperature of our discourse.
I used to fly the planes, but I don't like flying planes no more, it's a little bit longer and a little bit more tiresome, but I feel a little bit more safer on the train.
Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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- абры́длівыBelarusian
- empipadorCatalan, Valencian
- cansadoSpanish
- rasittava, pitkästyttäväFinnish
- barbant, ennuyeuse, ennuyeuxFrench
- liostaIrish
- fárasztó, idegesítő, unalmasHungarian
- noioso, noiosa, fastidioso, fastidiosaItalian
- うんざりするJapanese
- nudnyPolish
- cansativoPortuguese
- скучный, утомительныйRussian
- 煩人的Chinese
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