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Antonyms for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some

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  1. tiresomeadjective

    Antonyms:
    exciting, interesting, energizing, fresh

    Synonyms:
    dull, tedious, irksome, wearisome, boring, slow

  2. tiresomeadjective

    Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

    Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

    Synonyms:
    dull, tedious, boring, slow, wearisome, irksome

    Antonyms:
    fresh, exciting, interesting, energizing

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tiresome

    Synonyms:
    fatiguing, wearisome, exhausting, irksome, tedious

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 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"

    Antonyms:
    interesting

    Synonyms:
    dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, boring, verbose, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, muffled, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, thudding, softened

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  1. tiresomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious, toilsome, arduous

How to use tiresome in a sentence?

  1. La Bruy?re:

    It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Ruben Barry Hubbard:

    I used to fly the planes, but I don't like flying planes no more, it's a little bit longer and a little bit more tiresome, but I feel a little bit more safer on the train.

  5. 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.

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#1748interesting
#2085fresh
#4180exciting
#44477energizing
#48971tiresome

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