wearisome
31 07 2009Adjectives
1. (adj.) boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome;
- 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”; “tedious days on the train”; “the tiresome chirping of a cricket”; “other people’s dreams are dreadfully wearisome”;
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