wea·ri·some

(wîr′ē-səm)

adj.

Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.

wea′ri·some·ly adv.

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wearisome

(ˈwɪərɪsəm) or

weariful

adj

causing fatigue or annoyance; tedious

ˈwearisomely, ˈwearifully adv

ˈwearisomeness, ˈwearifulness n

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wea•ri•some

(ˈwɪər i səm)

adj.

1. causing weariness; fatiguing.

2. tiresome; tedious.

[1400–50]

wea′ri•some•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

wearisome - 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"

boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, dull, slow

uninteresting - arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"

wearisome

adjective tedious, trying, wearing, boring, exhausting, dull, annoying, fatiguing, troublesome, oppressive, exasperating, tiresome, monotonous, prosaic, humdrum, burdensome, uninteresting, mind-numbing, irksome, bothersome, vexatious a long and wearisome task
interesting, stimulating, refreshing, delightful, enjoyable, exhilarating, agreeable, pleasurable, invigorating

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

wearisome

adjective

Arousing no interest or curiosity:

boring, drear, dreary, dry, dull, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, weary.

Translations

مُتْعِب، طَويل ومُمِل

ermüdend

ennuyeux fastidieux

òreytandi

faticoso noioso stancante

bıktırıcıyorucu

使人疲倦的

wearisome

[ˈwɪərɪsəm] ADJ (frm) (= tiring) → fatigoso, pesado; (= boring) → aburrido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wearisome

[ˈwɪərisəm] adj

(= tiring, boring) → fatigant(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wearisome

adj → ermüdend; climb etc → beschwerlich; (= bothersome) questions → lästig; (= tedious) discussion → langweilig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wearisome

[ˈwɪərɪs/əm] adj (tiring) → estenuante; (boring) → noioso/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

weary

(ˈwiəri) adjective

tired; with strength or patience exhausted. a weary sigh; He looks weary; I am weary of his jokes.

verb

to (cause to) become tired. The patient wearies easily; Don't weary the patient.

ˈwearily adverb

ˈweariness noun

ˈwearisome adjective

causing weariness. a wearisome journey.

ˈwearisomely adverb

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I confess, however, that I do not think of him as a patriot and a socialist when I read him; he is then purely a poet, whose gift holds me rapt above the world where I have left my troublesome and wearisome self for the time.

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Vronsky was used to princes, but, either because he had himself changed of late, or that he was in too close proximity to the prince, that week seemed fearfully wearisome to him.

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Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good.

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Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved?

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Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our knee-pans were warming-pans.

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To use too many circumstances, ere one come to the matter, is wearisome; to use none at all, is blunt.

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Of course, to write this letter is a pleasure enough, and could never be wearisome; but why do you not come to see me in person?

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They returned hand-in-hand, and the Bellman, unmanned(For a moment) with noble emotion, Said "This amply repays all the wearisome days We have spent on the billowy ocean!"

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Kwaque possessed a jews' harp, and, whenever the world of the Makambo and the servitude to the steward grew wearisome, he could transport himself to King William Island by thrusting the primitive instrument between his jaws and fanning weird rhythms from it with his hand, and when he thus crossed space and time, Michael sang-- or howled, rather, though his howl possessed the same soft mellowness as Jerry's.

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"That I will do with all my heart," replied Dorothea, "if it will not be wearisome to you to hear of miseries and misfortunes."

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582-596) But when the artichoke flowers (27), and the chirping grass-hopper sits in a tree and pours down his shrill song continually from under his wings in the season of wearisome heat, then goats are plumpest and wine sweetest; women are most wanton, but men are feeblest, because Sirius parches head and knees and the skin is dry through heat.

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Everything annoyed him that day--the parade was insufferably hot and wearisome. Good heavens!

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