The Collaborative Dictionary

Wearisome \Wea"ri*some\, a. Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. [1913 Webster] These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Irksome; tiresome; tedious; fatiguing; annoying; vexatious. See Irksome. [1913 Webster] -- Wea"ri*some*ly, adv. -- Wea"ri*some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wearisome 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, tiresome]

Moby Thesaurus

Herculean, aggravating, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, black, bleak, boresome, boring, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, dark, dismal, disturbing, draining, drear, drearisome, dreary, effortful, exasperating, exhausting, fatiguesome, fatiguing, forced, funebrial, funereal, galling, gloomy, grave, gray, grim, grueling, harassing, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy, hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, punishing, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombrous, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, teasing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tormenting, tough, triste, troublesome, troubling, trying, uphill, vexatious, vexing, weariful, wearing, weary, wearying, worrisome, worrying, yawny

English

Adjective

1. Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

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