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. Henry Adams:

   As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. George Eliot:

   Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.