tiresomeadj.
/ˈtʌɪəsəm/ 1.
a. Having the property of tiring by continuance, sameness, or lack of interest; wearisome, tedious.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
alangec1330
joylessa1400
tedious1412
wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
irksome1513
wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
soaked1600
unlively1608
dulla1616
irking1629
drearisome1633
drear1645
plumbous1651
fatigable1656
dreary1667
uncurious1685
unenlivened1692
blank1726
disinteresting1737
stupid1748
stagnant1749
trist?1756
vegetable1757
borish1766
uninteresting1769
unenlivening1774
oorie1787
wearying1796
subjectless1803
yawny1805
wearing1811
stuffy1813
sloomy1820
tediousome1823
arid1827
lacklustrous1834
boring1839
featureless1839
slow1840
sodden1853
ennuying1858
dusty1860
cabbagy1861
old1864
mouldy1876
yawnful1878
drab1880
dehydrated1884
interestless1886
jay1889
boresome1895
stodgy1895
stuffy1895
yawnsome1900
sludgy1901
draggy1922
blah1937
nowhere1940
drack1945
stupefactive1970
schleppy1978
wack1986
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 260 I wait [it] is for me provydit, Bot sa done tyrsum it is to byd it.
1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike (new ed.) sig. H6 Those continuall cadences of couplets..are very tyresome, and vnpleasing.
1697 J. Addison Ess. Georgics in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶4v The inculcating Precept upon Precept, will at length prove tiresom to the Reader.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xii. 49 London soon grows tiresome.
1854 G. C. Lewis Let. 4 Mar. (1870) 279 It is slow, tiresome work.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 350 What a tiresome being is a man who is fond of talking.
b. loosely. Troublesome, disagreeable, unpleasant; irksome, annoying, vexatious. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious
angeeOE
swinkfuleOE
plightlyOE
teenfulOE
contrariousc1320
drefa1325
troublinga1325
despitousa1340
thornya1340
discomfortablec1350
troublablec1374
noyousa1382
noyfulc1384
diseasy1387
angrya1393
painful1395
hackinga1400
annoying?c1400
annoyousc1400
cumbrousc1400
teenc1400
annoyfulc1405
sputousc1420
diseasefula1425
molest?a1425
noying?a1425
noisomea1450
grievingc1450
tedious?1454
troublous1463
noisantc1475
displeasant1481
strouble1488
nuisant1494
noyanta1500
irksome1513
sturting1513
molestious1524
vexatious1534
cumbersome1535
uncommodious1541
spiteful1548
vexing?1548
incommodious1551
molestous1555
diseasing1558
grating1563
pestilent1565
sturtsome1570
molestuousa1572
troublesome1573
murrain1575
discommodable1579
galling1583
spiny1586
unsupportable1586
troubleful1588
plaguey1594
distressingc1595
molestful1596
molesting1598
vexful1598
fretful1603
briery1604
bemadding1608
mortifying1611
tiry1611
distressfula1616
irking1629
angersome1649
disobliging1652
discomforting1654
incomfortable1655
incommode1672
ruffling1680
unconvenient1683
pestifying1716
trying1718
offending1726
bothering1765
pesky1775
weary1785
sturty1788
unaccommodating1790
tiresome1798
werriting1808
bothersome1817
plaguesome1828
pestilential1833
fretsome1834
languorous1834
pesty1834
pestersome1843
nettlesome1845
miserable1850
niggling1854
distempering1855
be-maddeninga1861
nattery1873
nagging1883
pestiferous1890
trouble-giving1893
maddening1896
molestive1905
nuisancy1906
balls-aching?1912
nuisance1922
nattering1949
noodgy1969
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
cockish1996
1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher I. 11 The tiresome custom you have got of never being ready.
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 237 The tiresome things fell to pieces directly they became dry.
1862 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) III. 99 At the top of the house he is safe enough from tiresome interruptions.
1898 F. Montgomery Tony 12 A tiresome fidgety schoolboy as a travelling companion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion
wearyc1315
soakingc1440
tired1548
moilingc1566
wearisome1593
tiring1594
overtiring1598
tiresome1598
defatigating1634
defatigable1654
fatigable1656
fatiguing1708
fatiguesomea1734
jading1766
fagging1787
wearying1798
exhausting18..
taversome1808
harassing1833
killing1850
trashing1861
trachling1902
1598 R. Marbeck in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 612 The way was all of dry deepe slyding sand.., and by that meanes so tiresome and painefull as might be.
1710 A. Philips Pastorals ii. 16 The tiresome Burden doubles its Increase.
1725 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 11 Sept. In an employment precarious and tiresome,..this new weight of party malice had struck you down.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 40 He led his Enemies a tiresome Dance, often drawing them into Ambuscades.
Derivatives
ˈtiresomely adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in wearisome or tedious manner
irksomely1549
tediously1557
leaden-like1574
drearily1579
dully1600
Welshly1629
unlively1641
woodenly1653
stupidly1723
uninterestingly1793
soporifically1807
sloomy1820
wearyingly1829
boringly1840
tiresomely1847
aridly1883
drably1891
stuffily1894
stodgily1904
yawnsomely1908
yawnfully1914
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 198 A tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distasteful to him.
1902 Times 14 Mar. 7/5 Mr. Seddon [is] now regarded..as tiresomely insistent upon Imperial views.
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