tiresome

From tire +‎ -some.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɹsəm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪəsəm/

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• Hyphenation: tire‧some

tiresome (comparative more tiresome, superlative most tiresome)

1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

   Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 131:

     “How quickly have I fallen!” thought Tarzan; but in his heart he did not consider it a fall—rather, he pitied the poor creatures of Paris, penned up like prisoners in their silly clothes, and watched by policemen all their poor lives, that they might do nothing that was not entirely artificial and tiresome.

• (causing fatigue or boredom): boring, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome, exhausting
• See also Thesaurus:wearisome

• (causing fatigue or boredom): energizing, exciting, fresh, interesting

• tiresomeness

• Timorese, mroseite, romeites