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Definition of tiresome in English:

tiresome

adjective ˈtʌɪəs(ə)mˈtaɪ(ə)rsəm
  • Causing one to feel bored or annoyed.

    令人厌倦的;讨厌的

    weeding is a tiresome but essential job

    除草是一份让人厌烦但却必不可少的活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • How much of a challenge was it to keep the game's repetition from becoming tiresome?
    • And the pop culture reference is just tiresome, just another bout of nostalgia for childhood telly.
    • I suspect that mini-golf would become a little tiresome after, oh, the first round.
    • The poem of Fingal, he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images.
    • I know it's well-meant, but when you've received so much of it over the years it does become rather tiresome.
    • The last movement, so easily a tiresome adjunct, was played hell for leather.
    • Despite fame's oh so tiresome downsides, there are nevertheless two major perks.
    • Every tiresome pipsqueak with a website is mouthing off about some boring scandal in America.
    • It just won't fit and it becomes oh so tiresome when people try to do it.
    • December has been a tiresome month, with hitches and glitches galore.
    • There are all the tiresome tropes of sword-fighting, mistaken identities, chases and rescues.
    • It looks like he might just be fed up to the back teeth of certain tiresome middle-class women talking out of both sides of their mouth.
    • Graffiti is something of a tiresome obsession with young Berliners.
    • I have a sudden insight into how deeply tiresome it must be to be famous.
    • A lot of it is still closed and what parts were open was tiresome to ride, with one section being downright bloody dangerous.
    • Why let the facts and the tiresome routine of engagement get in the way of ideology…?
    • How tiresome it must be, to reduce the essential story of the world to nothing by a case of unrequited longing.
    • However, he admits that playing in a side who won only 15 times last term is proving increasingly tiresome.
    • But all in all, paying took about half an hour which was a tedious, tiresome end to what was otherwise a fun evening.
    • They know the routine and it gets tiresome, but they know they have to get the job done.
    Synonyms
    boring, dull, tedious, monotonous, humdrum, wearisome, laborious, wearing, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting, uneventful, unvarying, unvaried, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, common, workaday, usual, pedestrian
    rare banausic
    annoying, irritating, infuriating, exasperating, maddening, trying, troublesome, bothersome, irksome, vexing, vexatious
    informal aggravating, pesky, infernal, pestiferous, plaguy, pestilent

Derivatives

  • tiresomely

  • adverbˈtʌɪəs(ə)mliˈtaɪ(ə)rsəmli
    • as submodifier a tiresomely predictable attitude

      缺乏新意而让人生厌的看法。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is nobody more tiresomely predictable and bound to an intellectual rut than somebody who is constantly proclaiming himself free of ‘limitations’.
      • Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
      • The same attitudes are tiresomely evident in the editorial and letters columns of Oklahoma's largest newspaper.
      • He's trying to re-create those touch football games - one of the most tiresomely repeated, irrelevant cliches of the whole over-blown Kennedy era.
      • But to your tiresomely predictable suggestion of ‘repressed homosexuality’, I have this to say.
  • tiresomeness

  • nounˈtʌɪəs(ə)mnəsˈtaɪ(ə)rsəmnəs
    • For those worried that tiresomeness might not be a legal doctrine, the paper added that while free speech is ‘sacred,’ there is no ‘constitutional right to force everybody else in society to listen during school hours.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These last stayed all afternoon, and I experienced the tiresomeness of giving a short interview - twenty times over, until in sheer impatience I sounded like an enraged buffoon.
      • She knows that his colleagues, servants, above all his wife, must often ‘put up with his harshness, his unfairness and his general tiresomeness.’
      • Thankfully, readers of this site have averted tiresomeness because your author has never made any secret of his identity, and I think that should be the model that all bloggers follow.

Definition of tiresome in US English:

tiresome

adjectiveˈtī(ə)rsəmˈtaɪ(ə)rsəm
  • Causing one to feel bored or annoyed.

    令人厌倦的;讨厌的

    weeding is a tiresome but essential job

    除草是一份让人厌烦但却必不可少的活。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every tiresome pipsqueak with a website is mouthing off about some boring scandal in America.
    • I have a sudden insight into how deeply tiresome it must be to be famous.
    • They know the routine and it gets tiresome, but they know they have to get the job done.
    • A lot of it is still closed and what parts were open was tiresome to ride, with one section being downright bloody dangerous.
    • There are all the tiresome tropes of sword-fighting, mistaken identities, chases and rescues.
    • How tiresome it must be, to reduce the essential story of the world to nothing by a case of unrequited longing.
    • It just won't fit and it becomes oh so tiresome when people try to do it.
    • Despite fame's oh so tiresome downsides, there are nevertheless two major perks.
    • I suspect that mini-golf would become a little tiresome after, oh, the first round.
    • But all in all, paying took about half an hour which was a tedious, tiresome end to what was otherwise a fun evening.
    • The last movement, so easily a tiresome adjunct, was played hell for leather.
    • December has been a tiresome month, with hitches and glitches galore.
    • The poem of Fingal, he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images.
    • And the pop culture reference is just tiresome, just another bout of nostalgia for childhood telly.
    • Why let the facts and the tiresome routine of engagement get in the way of ideology…?
    • It looks like he might just be fed up to the back teeth of certain tiresome middle-class women talking out of both sides of their mouth.
    • However, he admits that playing in a side who won only 15 times last term is proving increasingly tiresome.
    • How much of a challenge was it to keep the game's repetition from becoming tiresome?
    • Graffiti is something of a tiresome obsession with young Berliners.
    • I know it's well-meant, but when you've received so much of it over the years it does become rather tiresome.
    Synonyms
    boring, dull, tedious, monotonous, humdrum, wearisome, laborious, wearing, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting, uneventful, unvarying, unvaried, unremarkable, repetitive, repetitious, routine, ordinary, everyday, day-to-day, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, common, workaday, usual, pedestrian
    annoying, irritating, infuriating, exasperating, maddening, trying, troublesome, bothersome, irksome, vexing, vexatious
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