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tiresome


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tiresome  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tiresome 
  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"  [syn:  {boring},  {deadening},  {dull}, 
  {ho-hum},  {irksome},  {slow},  {tedious},  {wearisome}] 




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