Tiresome

English

Adjective

Tiresome (comparative more Tiresome, superlative most Tiresome)

1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

   Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

Synonyms

• (causing fatigue or boredom): boring, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome
• See also Thesaurus:wearisome

Antonyms

• (causing fatigue or boredom): energizing, exciting, fresh, interesting

Adverbs for Tiresome

pedantically; monotonously; gushingly; garrulously; dully; uninterestingly; prosaically; long-windedly; endlessly; preachily; tediously; irksomely; boresomely; intolerably; unpleasantly; harmlessly; disagreeably; undeniably; terribly; needlessly; dreadfully; unfortunately; abominably; disgustingly; desperately; droningly.

Thesaurus

aggravating, annoying, bland, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, common, commonplace, difficult, disagreeable, disturbing, draining, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, flat, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, humdrum, hypnotic, importunate, importune, insipid, irking, irksome, irritating, jading, killing, matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, onerous, oppressive, ordinary, pedestrian, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plain, poetryless, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provoking, punishing, soporific, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tedious, tiring, toilsome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, trying, unembellished, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unpleasant, unpoetic, unromantic, vapid, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny

Translations

causing fatigue or boredom

Finnish: rasittava (fi), pitkästyttävä (fi) French: ennuyeux (fr) m., ennuyeuse (fr) f., barbant (fr) m.

Polish: nudny (pl) Portuguese: cansativo (pt) Russian: утомительный (ru), скучный (ru)