tiresome
/ˈtʌɪəs(ə)m
/adjective
Causing one to feel bored or annoyed: weeding is a tiresome but essential job...
- But all in all, paying took about half an hour which was a tedious, tiresome end to what was otherwise a fun evening.
- The poem of Fingal, he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images.
- Why let the facts and the tiresome routine of engagement get in the way of ideology…?
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
/ adverb [as submodifier]: a tiresomely predictable attitude...
- There is nobody more tiresomely predictable and bound to an intellectual rut than somebody who is constantly proclaiming himself free of ‘limitations’.
- But to your tiresomely predictable suggestion of ‘repressed homosexuality’, I have this to say.
- Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness.
tiresomeness
- 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.’
- She knows that his colleagues, servants, above all his wife, must often ‘put up with his harshness, his unfairness and his general tiresomeness.’
- 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.