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wearisome |
Overview of adj wearisome The adj wearisome has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) 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"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome") Antonyms of adj wearisome 1 sense of wearisome Sense 1 boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome INDIRECT (VIA uninteresting) -> interesting Similarity of adj wearisome 1 sense of wearisome Sense 1 boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome => uninteresting (vs. interesting) Attributes of adj wearisome Familiarity of adj wearisome wearisome used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1) Grep of adj wearisome wearisome Overview of adj wearisome The adj wearisome has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) 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"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome")
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