Definitions for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tiresomeadjective

   Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

   Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tiresomeadjective

   fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse

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1. timorese

2. rosetime

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tiresome in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tiresome in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of tiresome in a Sentence

1. Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

   Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

2. Lewis Lapham:

   We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

3. Henry Adams:

   As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

4. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

5. Bill Maher:

   If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome.

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