Wearisome (Adjective)
Meaning
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The teacher's monotonous voice made the two-hour lecture wearisome for the students.
- His friends found his stories of every mundane detail of his day wearisome and would often tune him out.
- After months of performing the same task, the once-exciting job had become wearisome for the employee.
- Watching paint dry would be less wearisome than sitting through this drawn-out presentation.
- Listening to the neighbor's loud complaints every morning had become wearisome for the whole family.