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wearisome

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wea·ri·some  (wîr-sm)
adj.
Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.
weari·some·ly adv.
wearisome
Adjective
causing fatigue and irritation
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Adj.1.wearisomewearisome - 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"
Translations

wearisome [ˈwɪərɪsəm] adj (= tiring) → cansado, pesado (= boring); aburrido
wearisome [ˈwɪərɪsəm] adj (= tiring) → fatigant(e) (= boring); ennuyeux/euse
wearisome [ˈwɪərɪsəm] adj (= boring) → langweilig (= tiring); ermüdend
wearisome [ˈwɪərɪsəm] adj (= tiring) → estenuante (= boring); noioso/a


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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?
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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
The Hunting of the Snark by Carroll, Lewis View in context
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