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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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