Synonyms for tiresome
ˈtaɪər səmtire·some

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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

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1. tiresome

   Synonyms:
   fatiguing, wearisome, exhausting, irksome, tedious

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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

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1. tiresomeadjective

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

2. tiresomeadjective

   Synonyms:
   laborious, arduous, hard, tollsome

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1. tiresomeadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "tiresome":

   tiring, boring, tedious, annoying, exhausting, dull

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1. Editor Curtis Houck:

   She painted leftists as somehow victims in all this, which is such a tiresome trick the left plays when people they don't like are in power. The image she paints of anyone who's not in her camp is one of brutality and violence that's such a tired trope yet it's actually dangerous. She's advocating for a more dramatic return to tribalism and that'll do nothing to cool the temperature of our discourse.

2. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.