Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | arduous, exacting, fatiguing, formidable, hard, laborious, tough, trying, uphill |
| Antonyms: | easy |
| Main Entry: | tedious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arid, banal, boring, bromidic, drab, dragging, draggy, dreary, drudging, dry, dull as dishwater, dusty, endless, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, irksome, laborious, lifeless, long-drawn-out, mortal, pabulum, poky, prosaic, prosy, slow, snooze, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome |
| Antonyms: | entertaining, exciting, interesting |
| Main Entry: | tiresome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating, exasperating |
| Synonyms: | a bit much, annoying, arduous, boresome, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, drudging, dull, enervative, exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, ho-hum, humdrum, irksome, jading, laborious, monotonous, nowhere, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uncool, uninteresting, unrelieved, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, wearying, yawn |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | troublesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, worrisome |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, arduous, burdensome, damaging, dangerous, demanding, difficult, disquieting, harassing, hard, heavy, importunate, inconvenient, infestive, intractable, irksome, irritating, laborious, mean, messy, murder, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, problematic, refractory, repressive, rough, taxing, tiresome, tough, tricky, troublous, trying, ugly, ungovernable, unruly, uphill, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrying |
| Antonyms: | easy, helpful, nice, useful |
| Main Entry: | disturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disquieting |
| Synonyms: | aggravating, agitating, alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, harassing, hard, impeding, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, perturbing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, troubling, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, unsettling, upsetting, vexing, wearisome, worrisome, worrying |
| Main Entry: | operose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tedious |
| Synonyms: | arduous, diligent, hard, industrious, laborious |
| Main Entry: | wearisome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausting |
| Synonyms: | boring, dull, laborious, strenuous, tedious, tiresome, toilsome |
| Antonyms: | refreshing |
| Main Entry: | wearisome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burdensome |
| Synonyms: | exhausting, fatiguing, laborious, strenuous, toilsome |
| Main Entry: | effortful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | burdensome |
| Synonyms: | arduous, backbreaking, demanding, difficult, hard, heavy, labored, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, strained, strenuous, taxing, tough, trying |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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