Wearisome
['wɪərɪs(ə)m] or ['wɪrɪsəm]
Definition
(a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Tedious, tiresome, fatiguing, IRKSOME, prolix, weary, trying, humdrum, prosy, monotonous, uninteresting.
Checker: Spenser
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tedious, tiresome, fatiguing, toilsome, laborious, annoying,[See WEAN]
Editor: Sallust
Examples
- And she was forced to fly into lodgings of which the dulness and solitude were most wearisome to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His wearisome cough and his comfortless restlessness have certainly increased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Greek dances are rather monotonous, I am afraid, said Roylands, who found this incessant swaying a trifle wearisome. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What you call wearisome domesticity, said the Rector in a voice of emotion, is the happiest state in which a man can find himself. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is not wearisome to you, I trust, Dorothea? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is because you cannot feel for me that I drag on this wearisome life. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In himself he was wearisome, but as the friend of Tom and the admirer of Julia he became offensive. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I don't care about such wearisome domesticity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But any one can see that this is a mere form, of which the affectation grows wearisome as the work advances. Plato. The Republic.
- Will would be happy to conduct them--not to anything wearisome, only to a few examples. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, too, was he cursed with a state of mind more wearing and more wearisome than remorse. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Their wearisome heads went up and down at the same rate, in hot weather and cold, wet weather and dry, fair weather and foul. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One after another those words travelled over my memory, repeating themselves again and again with a wearisome, mechanical reiteration. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Everything annoyed him that day--the parade was insufferably hot and wearisome. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This is the most wearisome day that ever did dawn upon the world, I am certain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Sallust