tiresome

comparative more tiresome · superlative most tiresome

1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

   Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

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   "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them."

   1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC

   »"But give me him quickly. Oh, nurse, how tiresome you are! There, tie the cap afterwards, do!"

   1901 [1878], chapter 6, in Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 8

   “How quickly have I fallen!” thought Tarzan; but in his heart he did not consider it a fall—rather, he pitied the poor creatures of Paris, penned up like prisoners in their silly clothes, and watched by policemen all their poor lives, that they might do nothing that was not entirely artificial and tiresome.

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg, published March 1915, →OCLC, page 131

   Synonyms: boring, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome, exhausting, drippy · Antonyms: energizing, exciting, fresh, interesting