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tiresome, a.|ˈtaɪəsəm|
[f. tire v.1 + -some; cf. meddlesome, wearisome.]
1. Having the property of tiring by continuance, sameness, or lack of interest; wearisome, tedious.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxvi. 82, I wait [it] is for me provydit, Bot sa done tyrsum [v.r. tyresum] it is to byd it. 1603Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyr., etc. H vj, Those continuall cadences of couplets..are very tyresome, and vnpleasing. 1697Dryden Virg., Ess. Georgics (1721) I. 203 The inculcating Precept upon Precept, will at length prove tiresome to the Reader. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) I. xii. 33 London soon grows tiresome. 1854Lewis Lett. (1870) 279 It is slow, tiresome work. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 350 What a tiresome being is a man who is fond of talking.
b. loosely. Troublesome, disagreeable, unpleasant; irksome, annoying, vexatious. colloq.
1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. I. 11 The tiresome custom you have got of never being ready. 1836Backwoods of Canada 237 The tiresome things fell to pieces directly they became dry. 1862Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 99 At the top of the house he is safe enough from tiresome interruptions. 1898F. Montgomery Tony 12 A tiresome fidgety schoolboy as a travelling companion.
†2. Causing physical fatigue; fatiguing, tiring. Obs. (Now merged in sense 1.)
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 612 The way was all of dry deepe slyding sand.., and by that meanes so tiresome and painefull as might be. 1710Philips Pastorals ii. 16 The tiresome Burden doubles its Increase. 1725Swift Let. to Sheridan 11 Sept., In an employment precarious and tiresome,..this new weight of party malice had struck you down. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iii. 40 He led his Enemies a tiresome Dance, often drawing them into Ambuscades.
Hence ˈtiresomely adv.
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxiv, A tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distasteful to him. 1902Times 14 Mar. 7/5 Mr. Seddon [is] now regarded..as tiresomely insistent upon Imperial views. |