tiresome

CEFRB2

/ˈtaɪɚsəm/

adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Boring or annoying because it continues for too long.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

Examples

  • At first the job looked good to Tom, but later it became tiresome.

  • I told you that this would become tiresome.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

More examples

In context

  • Your friend is tiresome.

  • Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

Repeating the same boring task every day becomes very blank.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

From tire + -some.