WEARISOME vs TIRESOME: ADJECTIVE
- Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.
- Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.
- So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
- Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious
- Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome. : boring.
- So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
WEARISOME vs TIRESOME: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Wearisome, Fatiguing, Tiresome, Tedious, Irksome, prolix, humdrum, prosy, dull. Wearisome and fatiguing are essentially the same in meaning and strength; they are equally appropriate whether the person acts or is acted upon: as, the old man was so deaf that it was equally wearisome (or fatiguing) to speak and to be spoken to. Tiresome is more often used where one is acted upon; in strength it is the same as wearisome. Tedious is stronger than wearisome, and suggests the need of constant effort of the will to do or to endure; the weariness may be, physical or mental r as, a tedious task; a tedious headache; tedious garrulity. Tedious suggests commonly that one is acted upon; irksome suggests that one acts or is called upon to act, and implies also a peculiar reluctance. In Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 56, is an example of the rarer use of irksome to express a wearied shrinking from being acted upon: “How irksome is this music to my heart!” See fatigue, n., and tire, transitive verb
- Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; irksome; monotonous: as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work.
- Dull, humdrum.
- Tedious, Irksome, etc. See wearisome.
- Synonyms and
- Exhausting the patience or attention; wearisome; tedious; prosy.
- Tending to tire; exhausting the strength; fatiguing: as, a tiresome journey.
WEARISOME vs TIRESOME: RELATED WORDS
- Weary, Trite, Pointless, Laborious, Interminable, Monotonous, Ho hum, Slow, Deadening, Irksome, Uninteresting, Dull, Boring, Tedious, Tiresome
- Cumbersome, Ponderous, Laborious, Tiring, Exhausting, Annoying, Ho hum, Slow, Deadening, Uninteresting, Dull, Irksome, Boring, Tedious, Wearisome
WEARISOME vs TIRESOME: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Weary, Trite, Pointless, Laborious, Interminable, Monotonous, Ho hum, Slow, Deadening, Irksome, Uninteresting, Dull, Boring, Tedious, Tiresome
- Cumbersome, Ponderous, Laborious, Tiring, Exhausting, Annoying, Ho hum, Slow, Deadening, Uninteresting, Dull, Irksome, Boring, Tedious, Wearisome
WEARISOME vs TIRESOME: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- To us Filipinos, unfortunately we have grown too wearisome of maps.
- It is no wearisome task with him to read them.
- Such detail is not egregious, but it can be wearisome.
- Unfortunately, for many children, simple activities are complex and wearisome.
- How often must we go through this wearisome cycle?.
- All things are wearisome, more than one can say.
- Registration was again long and wearisome first semester.
- Still, in the end, it may grow wearisome.
- Basically, the entire storyline is lacklustre and wearisome.
- Wearisome perspectives shed their gadding and humdrum crusts.
- Magtheridon: These upstarts are tiresome gnats, nothing more.
- And as a parent, it is extremely tiresome.
- Resume writing can be tiresome, confusing and boring.
- The seniors (me included) found this very tiresome.
- Repetition, unless necessary, is tiresome for the reader.
- UK visa for Indians is a tiresome process.
- It used to be such a tiresome task.
- This tiresome travel is not being equally distributed.
- Attending similar conventions each year can become tiresome.
- Job hunting can be tiresome, frustrating, and discouraging.
WEARISOME vs TIRESOME: QUESTIONS
- N/A
- What if I haven't solved the crossword clue tiresome?