What is another word for tiresome?

Synonyms for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word tiresome.

Wiktionary1.0 / 2 votes

  1. tiresomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    dull, tedious, irksome, wearisome, boring, slow

    Antonyms:
    exciting, interesting, energizing, fresh

  2. tiresomeadjective

    Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

    Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

    Synonyms:
    dull, tedious, boring, slow, wearisome, irksome

    Antonyms:
    fresh, exciting, interesting, energizing

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tiresome

    Synonyms:
    fatiguing, wearisome, exhausting, irksome, tedious

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, boring, verbose, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, muffled, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, thudding, softened

    Antonyms:
    interesting

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tiresomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    wearisome, fatiguing, tedious, IRKSOME, humdrum, dull, prosy, dronish

  2. tiresomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    laborious, arduous, hard, tollsome

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. tiresomeadjective

    Synonyms:
    irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious, toilsome, arduous

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "tiresome":

    tiring, boring, tedious, annoying, exhausting, dull

How to pronounce tiresome?

How to say tiresome in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#2901slow
#8356boring
#9389dim
#9416annoying
#9564dumb
#9770dense
#13293dull
#16762windy
#20706tedious
#22081verbose
#29806sluggish
#32570softened
#32598muted
#37611exhausting
#40871tiring
#48971tiresome
#49055muffled
#56643obtuse
#70981wordy
#91829leaden
#107606deadening
#109623irksome
#128221fatiguing
#129314wearisome
#207170thudding

How to use tiresome in a sentence?

  1. Lewis Lapham:

    We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

  2. La Bruy?re:

    It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way.

  3. Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

    Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  4. Bill Maher:

    If the word only made you think of rational, deserved causes like teaching a less whitewashed version of American history, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would still want to own it. But it's a joke because it makes you think of people who wake up offended and take orders from Twitter. And their oversensitivity has grown tiresome.

  5. Marya Mannes:

    But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women


Translations for tiresome

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for tiresome »

Translation

Find a translation for the tiresome synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"tiresome." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 18 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/tiresome>.

Discuss these tiresome synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for tiresome?

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    Which of these is a synonym of big?
    A hilarious
    B tiny
    C frightening
    D grand

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for tiresome: