Synonyms of the word tiresome


TIRESOMEBORING - DEADENING - DULL - HO-HUM - IRKSOME - SLOW - TEDIOUS - UNINTERESTING - WEARISOME

tiresome

  • adj. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

boring

  • n. A pit or hole which has been bored.
  • n. Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
  • v. present participle of bore.
  • adj. Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold one's interest.

deadening

  • v. present participle of deaden.
  • n. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.

dull

  • adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  • adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  • adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
  • adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
  • adj. Sluggish, listless.
  • adj. Cloudy, overcast.
  • adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
  • adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
  • adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
  • adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
  • v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  • v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  • v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

ho-hum

  • adj. (dated, US, Canada) Boring; not interesting or novel.
  • interj. (dated, US, Canada) Used to express boredom, disinterest or lack of novelty.

irksome

  • adj. Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition;…

slow

  • adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
  • adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
  • adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
  • adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
  • adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
  • adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
  • adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
  • v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
  • n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
  • n. (music) A slow song.
  • adv. Slowly.

tedious

  • adj. Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

uninteresting

  • adj. Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.

wearisome

  • adj. Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

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