Synonyms for tiresome
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
tedious, wearisome, irksome, dull, boring, exhausting, slow, tiring, monotonous, repetitious, troublesome, uninteresting, prolix, weary, bothersome, vapid, hard, fatiguing, humdrum, prosaic, draining, wearing
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
Eventually his long stories became tiresome.
Example sentences
- boring The show was so boring that Ann and I fell asleep.
- tedious The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.
- irksome Being treated as a minor is irksome.
- wearisome The work required to investigate that is boring and wearisome.
By length
- 4 letters
- hard1, slow1, dull1
- 5 letters
- weary2, vapid2
- 6 letters
- boring2, tiring2, prolix
- 7 letters
- wearing2, tedious3, prosaic3, humdrum2, irksome2
- 8 letters
- draining2
- 9 letters
- fatiguing3, wearisome3
- 10 letters
- exhausting3, monotonous4, bothersome3
- 11 letters
- troublesome3, repetitious4
- 13 letters
- uninteresting4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (weary2 = 2 syllables).