| 单词 | wearisome |
| 释义 | wearisome (once / 1805 pages) adj Anything that's boring, tedious, or so dull that it puts you to sleep can be described as wearisome. Long bus rides and long classroom lectures can both be wearisome. The adjective wearisome is good for describing things that seem to last forever, that require repetition, or that are otherwise both boring and mentally exhausting. Always being told "Be careful!" by your parents can be wearisome, and typing data into a computer all day is also wearisome. The original, fifteenth century meaning of wearisome was "weary" or "tired," but it quickly came to mean "making one weary," from the Old English root werig, "tired." WORD FAMILYwearisome: wearisomely, wearisomest+/overweary: overwearied, overwearying/unwearied: unweariedly/unweary: unwearily, unwearyingly/wearied: unwearied, weariedly/weariness: wearinesses/weary: overweary, unweary, wearied, wearier, wearies, weariest, wearily, weariness, wearisome, wearying, wearyingly/wearying: unwearying USAGE EXAMPLESThat helps bring in foreign buyers who do not fancy the wearisome drive from Lahore. Economist(Oct 27, 2016) The story won’t end here, but a wearisome weekend ended in relief. The New Yorker(Sep 19, 2016) Growing up is a series of dreams evaporating; the reality is always more wearisome and less dignified than you had hoped. New York Times(Jul 30, 2016) adj so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome Syn boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome uninteresting arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement |
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