tiresome English

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tiresome Adjective

— If someone or something is tiresome, it makes you bored or annoyed, usually because it is too long. All of this talking can get a little tiresome.

tiresome

— adjective (= boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, wearisome) 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

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tiresome English » English

tedious

boring

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