Tiresome
adjective
Something or someone that makes you feel annoyed or bothered because it keeps happening or continuing for a long time.
Doing house chores every day can be tiresome.
Often appears as...
- tiresome task
- tiresome work
adjective
Something or someone that makes you feel annoyed or bothered because it keeps happening or continuing for a long time.
Doing house chores every day can be tiresome.
Often appears as...
- tiresome task
- tiresome work
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Energy
Shows the speaker's irritation due to repetition or prolongation of an annoying action or behavior.
Listening to his complaints became tiresome.
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Disapproval
Implies a mild disapproval and is less harsh than calling something 'annoying' or 'irritating'.
Her constant questioning is becoming tiresome.
Pro Tip 3/3Duration Focus
Often used when an activity has been ongoing and feels overly long or drawn-out.
The meeting was tiresome, stretching on for hours.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Energy
Shows the speaker's irritation due to repetition or prolongation of an annoying action or behavior.
Listening to his complaints became tiresome.
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Disapproval
Implies a mild disapproval and is less harsh than calling something 'annoying' or 'irritating'.
Her constant questioning is becoming tiresome.
Pro Tip 3/3Duration Focus
Often used when an activity has been ongoing and feels overly long or drawn-out.
The meeting was tiresome, stretching on for hours.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Energy
Shows the speaker's irritation due to repetition or prolongation of an annoying action or behavior.
Listening to his complaints became tiresome.
Pro Tip 2/3Slight Disapproval
Implies a mild disapproval and is less harsh than calling something 'annoying' or 'irritating'.
Her constant questioning is becoming tiresome.
Pro Tip 3/3Duration Focus
Often used when an activity has been ongoing and feels overly long or drawn-out.
The meeting was tiresome, stretching on for hours.
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The mad scientist of...
and I make all of these by hand, and it's really tedious. It takes a long, long time to make these scores, and right now I'm working on a piece that's 180 pages in length, and it's just a big chunk of my life, and I'm just pulling out hair. I have a lot of it, and that's a good thing I suppose. So this gets really boring and really tiresome for me,
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These Men Love...
they lift our sagging spirits on long tiresome journeys then that light robotic fascist traffic lights how many times have you been on a set of traffic lights oh there's nothing coming but you're just standing there burning off petrol roundabouts are far more green
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Everything you need to...
This becomes so tiresome that she tries to scare him away by hanging her rear end out the window for him to kiss. When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker.
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The real meaning of soul...
into cliche there's an easy sentimentality to the idea of someone being sold for for instance oh and the way my Irish mother used to forgive a rather tiresome acquaintance by saying
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Sea Bear Ancestors? PIPE...
but females don't mind other mothers for company what they could do without at the moment are the tiresome males
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The mad scientist of...
and I make all of these by hand, and it's really tedious. It takes a long, long time to make these scores, and right now I'm working on a piece that's 180 pages in length, and it's just a big chunk of my life, and I'm just pulling out hair. I have a lot of it, and that's a good thing I suppose. So this gets really boring and really tiresome for me,
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These Men Love...
they lift our sagging spirits on long tiresome journeys then that light robotic fascist traffic lights how many times have you been on a set of traffic lights oh there's nothing coming but you're just standing there burning off petrol roundabouts are far more green
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Everything you need to...
This becomes so tiresome that she tries to scare him away by hanging her rear end out the window for him to kiss. When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker.
Video examples
The real meaning of soul...
into cliche there's an easy sentimentality to the idea of someone being sold for for instance oh and the way my Irish mother used to forgive a rather tiresome acquaintance by saying
Video examples
Sea Bear Ancestors? PIPE...
but females don't mind other mothers for company what they could do without at the moment are the tiresome males
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Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
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Claire Messud
American Novelist
For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
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Yann Martel
Canadian Author
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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Tawny Kitaen
I'd really like to do a prime time series. That way I could work in the same city I live in and enjoy regular hours. Movies have taken me all over the world. And that gets tiresome very quickly.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Belgian Dramatist
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
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Suresh Gopi
Indian Actor
When you are involved with the film and the character, you don't find it tiresome at all. But if you think it's tiresome, it will be.
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Samuel Beckett
Irish Playwright
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Voltaire
French Writer
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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Xavier Dolan
Canadian Actor
Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.
Quote examples
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
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Claire Messud
American Novelist
For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
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Yann Martel
Canadian Author
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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Tawny Kitaen
I'd really like to do a prime time series. That way I could work in the same city I live in and enjoy regular hours. Movies have taken me all over the world. And that gets tiresome very quickly.
Quote examples
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Belgian Dramatist
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.
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Suresh Gopi
Indian Actor
When you are involved with the film and the character, you don't find it tiresome at all. But if you think it's tiresome, it will be.
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Samuel Beckett
Irish Playwright
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Voltaire
French Writer
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
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