tiresome

[tahyuhr-suhm] / ˈtaɪər səm /

ADJECTIVE

irritating, exasperating

Synonyms

STRONGEST

annoying boring dull exhausting ho-hum laborious monotonous onerous tedious tired tiring uninteresting

WEAK

a bit much arduous boresome burdensome demanding difficult drag dragging drudging enervative exacting fatiguing flat hard heavy hefty humdrum irksome jading nowhere oppressive strenuous too much tough trying uncool unrelieved vexatious wearing wearisome wearying yawn

Antonyms

STRONGEST

active easy eventful exciting interesting light lively trivial

WEAK

facile fun nice stimulating

Example Sentences

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That impulse can be tiresome, and in “Zootopia 2” it is.

From The Wall Street Journal

This autumn they could and should be three wins from three, but this is another tiresome refrain.

From BBC

And their sanctimonious approach to history becomes very tiresome very quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal

An increasingly tiresome "jam tomorrow" line only created the most incendiary environment that some Rangers observers can ever remember.

From BBC

The push factors, meanwhile, are long-standing bugbears - such as a poor regulatory environment, tiresome bureaucracy and a poor ease-of-business climate that has led to an exodus of wealthy, high-earning Indians over the years.

From BBC

tiresome

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