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tiresome

3 syllables
adjective
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As an adjective, tiresome means causing fatigue or boredom.

Meanings of tiresome

2 meanings

adjective

  1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

    “Eventually his long stories became tiresome.”

  2. 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”

    Similar: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for tiresome →
adjective: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
boringdeadeningdullho-humirksomeslowtediouswearisome

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