wearisome English

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wearisome

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

tedious

dull

boring

irksome

exhausting

tiring

monotonous

wearing

ho-hum

fatiguing

wasting

stodgy

slow

gruelling

deadening

wretched

worrying

wearying

weary

weariness

vain

uninteresting

troublesome

travailous

toilsome

tireful

tediousness

snoozy

punishing

prosy

prosaical

prosaic

ponderous

painstaking

operose

laboursome

labourious

laborious

irritating

insipid

herculean

hardscrabble

grueling

ennui

draining

drab

disgust

cookie-cutter

causing fatigue

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  tiring exhausting wearing boring draining grueling taxing tedious wearisome wearying