tiringadjective
uk/ˈtaɪə.rɪŋ/us/ˈtaɪ.rɪŋ/B1 making you feel tired:
I've had a very tiring day.
Looking after the kids is extremely tiring.
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- They don't come down to London much because it's too tiring with the kids.
- She's a lovely woman, even if she can be a bit tiring at times.
- Looking after small children can be very tiring.
- Visiting museums is surprisingly tiring.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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