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Synonyms for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some
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Wiktionary
tiresomeadjective
Synonyms:
dull, tedious, irksome, wearisome, boring, slowAntonyms:
exciting, interesting, energizing, freshtiresomeadjective
Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
Eventually his long stories became tiresome.
Synonyms:
dull, tedious, boring, slow, wearisome, irksomeAntonyms:
fresh, exciting, interesting, energizing
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
tiresome
Synonyms:
fatiguing, wearisome, exhausting, irksome, tedious
Princeton's WordNet
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, softenedAntonyms:
interesting
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #2901 | slow | |
| #8356 | boring | |
| #9389 | dim | |
| #9416 | annoying | |
| #9564 | dumb | |
| #9770 | dense | |
| #13293 | dull | |
| #16762 | windy | |
| #20706 | tedious | |
| #22081 | verbose | |
| #29806 | sluggish | |
| #32570 | softened | |
| #32598 | muted | |
| #37611 | exhausting | |
| #40871 | tiring | |
| #48971 | tiresome | |
| #49055 | muffled | |
| #56643 | obtuse | |
| #70981 | wordy | |
| #91829 | leaden | |
| #107606 | deadening | |
| #109623 | irksome | |
| #128221 | fatiguing | |
| #129314 | wearisome | |
| #207170 | thudding |
How to use tiresome in a sentence?
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women
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.
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.
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.
Translations for tiresome
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- абры́длівыBelarusian
- empipadorCatalan, Valencian
- cansadoSpanish
- rasittava, pitkästyttäväFinnish
- barbant, ennuyeuse, ennuyeuxFrench
- liostaIrish
- fárasztó, idegesítő, unalmasHungarian
- noioso, noiosa, fastidioso, fastidiosaItalian
- うんざりするJapanese
- nudnyPolish
- cansativoPortuguese
- скучный, утомительныйRussian
- 煩人的Chinese
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