wearisome : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wearisome	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for wearisome
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wearisome 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]:
Wearisome \Wea"risome\, a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome* march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak. Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See {Irksome}. -- {Wea"risomely}, adv. -- {Wea"risomeness}, n.