tiresome : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tiresome	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tiresome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tiresome adj 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" Synonym(s): boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tiresome \Tire"some\, a. Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. -- {Tire"somely}, adv. -- {Tire"someness}, n.