Synonyms for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some

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1. tiresomeadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   exciting, interesting, energizing, fresh

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

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1. tiresome

   Synonyms:
   fatiguing, wearisome, exhausting, irksome, tedious

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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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   interesting

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1. tiresomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   wearisome, fatiguing, tedious, IRKSOME, humdrum, dull, prosy, dronish

2. tiresomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   laborious, arduous, hard, tollsome

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1. tiresomeadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "tiresome":

   tiring, boring, tedious, annoying, exhausting, dull

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1. 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.

2. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

3. 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.

4. Arnold Bennett:

   Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

5. 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.