tiresome adj : so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome]

English

Adjective

1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

   Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

Synonyms

(Causing fatigue or boredom): boring, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome

Antonyms

(Causing fatigue or boredom): energizing, exciting, fresh, interesting

Translations

aggravating, annoying, bland, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, common, commonplace, difficult, disagreeable, disturbing, draining, drudging, dull, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, flat, galling, grueling, harassing, hard, humdrum, hypnotic, importunate, importune, insipid, irking, irksome, irritating, jading, killing, matter-of-fact, monotonous, mundane, onerous, oppressive, ordinary, pedestrian, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, plain, poetryless, prosaic, prosing, prosy, provoking, punishing, soporific, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tedious, tiring, toilsome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, trying, unembellished, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unpleasant, unpoetic, unromantic, vapid, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny