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TIRESOME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Example:
other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
Synonyms:
boring; deadening; dull; ho-hum; irksome; slow; tedious; tiresome; wearisome
Classified under:
Similar:
uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)
Derivation:
tiresomeness (dullness owing to length or slowness)
Context examples:
I dared commit no fault: I strove to fulfil every duty; and I was termed naughty and tiresome, sullen and sneaking, from morning to noon, and from noon to night.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her aunt is a good creature, but, as a constant companion, must be very tiresome.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I'm longing to enjoy myself at home," began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“She is a tiresome creature,” said Dora, pouting.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
At last came the little dwarf’s turn; and he looked in the moss; but it was so hard to find the pearls, and the job was so tiresome!—so he sat down upon a stone and cried.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
How provoking! exclaimed Miss Ingram: you tiresome monkey! (apostrophising Adele), who perched you up in the window to give false intelligence? and she cast on me an angry glance, as if I were in fault.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Tom listened with some shame and some sorrow; but escaping as quickly as possible, could soon with cheerful selfishness reflect, firstly, that he had not been half so much in debt as some of his friends; secondly, that his father had made a most tiresome piece of work of it; and, thirdly, that the future incumbent, whoever he might be, would, in all probability, die very soon.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
