wearisome
/ˈwɪərɪs(ə)m
/adjective
Causing one to feel tired or bored: they have schedules and inventories that tell them in wearisome detail what they should look for they insisted on his presence at wearisome musical soirées...
- It would be wearisome to go into any more detail.
- How can the government expect these girls to change when they are taught to live a tedious and wearisome life?
- Their little world became wearisome and difficult as alliances broke and were reformed.
Synonyms
tiring, exhausting, wearying, fatiguing, enervating, draining, sapping, stressful, wearing, crushing;
demanding, exacting, taxing, trying, challenging, burdensome, arduous, gruelling, punishing, grinding, onerous, difficult, hard, tough, heavy, laborious, back-breaking, crippling, strenuous, rigorous, uphill;
tiresome, irksome, weary, boring, dull, tedious, monotonous, humdrum, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting
Derivatives
wearisomely
- At today's service at the Shrine of Remembrance, a bunch of ‘anti-war protestors’ interrupted the service just before the minute of silence with their by now wearisomely familiar shrieks and slogans.
- The dialogue is either functional or wearisomely overblown.
- This device is already getting wearisomely predictable.
wearisomeness
- We characterize it in the same manner as melancholia, tristesse, ennui, annoyance and wearisomeness.
- Allow me to give you a short anecdote, to vary the wearisomeness of my discourse.
- ‘We may not be always aware whither our steps are leading, but are only too fully conscious of the wearisomeness of the journey.’