Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tiresome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tiresome \Tire"some\, a.
Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing;
tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. --
{Tire"some*ly}, adv. -- {Tire"some*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tiresome
adj : 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" [syn: {boring}, {deadening}, {dull},
{ho-hum}, {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {wearisome}]
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