wearisome

Speech parts

1. wearisome - Adjective

2. wearisome - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tedious tiresome irksome slow dull boring annoying deadening ho-hum fatiguing pokey scruff difficult heavy pesky
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Antonyms

amazing astounding electrical interesting attractive convenient
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Phrases with the word

be wearisome

Examples

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress. Anton Chekhov

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau

You cannot imagine how wearisome existence grows, alone and immortal. Poul Anderson

No matter how hard and wearisome an age this might be, it was certainly a very exciting one with regard to manifestations of the supernatural. Fritz Leiber

As has become the custom, a wearisome one I admit, this invitation has not been without controversy. Though this unfortunate, this controversy has added little value in the calculus of my decision to be here. Clarence Thomas

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man. Pierre Loti

Close letter words and terms

wearish wearishness wearisom wearisomely wearisomeness Wearmouth