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Definition of wearisome in English: wearisomeadjective ˈwɪərɪs(ə)mˈwɪrisəm Causing one to feel tired or bored. 使疲倦的;使厌倦的,乏味的 they have schedules and inventories that tell them in wearisome detail what they should look for they insisted on his presence at wearisome musical soirées Example sentencesExamples - For most of us, the lack of daylight is a wearisome fact of life.
- He is criticised for not offering or saying anything new, although he must feel the questions are equally wearisome: Will he sack the manager?
- It's sometimes wearisome, sometimes amusing, to see partisan Democrats and Republicans constantly accusing the other side of things that both sides are constantly guilty of.
- The relentlessness of the jokes grows wearisome, and the ending is perfunctory and trite.
- He manages to do or say something really annoying and despicable so often that it's wearisome.
- It would be wearisome to go into any more detail.
- In fact, the film might have worked better if it had been made for the small screen, although with its sloppy characterisation and lifeless, wearisome narrative, it's arguable whether it should have been made at all.
- That's fun when you start, but after 15 years it can become wearisome.
- Permanently traumatized by her brutal violation, Urania flees the Dominican Republic for a sterile and wearisome expatriate existence before she belatedly returns one final time to her fatherland.
- In such a situation, ‘everything is either oversimplified or reduced to a wearisome incomprehensibility.’
- Their little world became wearisome and difficult as alliances broke and were reformed.
- But after a point the ridiculousness of the plot becomes a bit wearisome.
- But their increasingly wearisome antics are not going to win many new friends.
- This is all true, but two hundred pages of it do become rather wearisome.
- How can the government expect these girls to change when they are taught to live a tedious and wearisome life?
- By itself, it offers few magic answers, but it spurs the client's imagination to be creative, to consider new ideas and modes of behavior, and to find novel solutions to wearisome problems.
- At the end of a wearisome session the temptation was to accept what he had to say simply to escape.
- Our national character might also find the ever-smiling country club environment wearisome.
- And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch.
- But perhaps more wearisome are the judgements made every day, the belief that veiled women are uneducated, downtrodden and oppressed, the passive victims of a highly restrictive Muslim patriarchy.
Synonyms tiring, exhausting, wearying, fatiguing, enervating, draining, sapping, stressful, wearing, crushing demanding, exacting, taxing, trying, challenging, burdensome, arduous, gruelling, punishing, grinding, onerous, difficult, hard, tough, heavy, laborious, back-breaking, crippling, strenuous, rigorous, uphill tiresome, irksome, weary, boring, dull, tedious, monotonous, humdrum, prosaic, unexciting, uninteresting
Derivativesadverbˈwɪərɪs(ə)mliˈwɪrisəmli At today's service at the Shrine of Remembrance, a bunch of ‘anti-war protestors’ interrupted the service just before the minute of silence with their by now wearisomely familiar shrieks and slogans. Example sentencesExamples - The dialogue is either functional or wearisomely overblown.
- Characters wearisomely narrate what you've just seen, and all action seems slightly slowed down.
- This device is already getting wearisomely predictable.
- Some American journalists are still wearisomely offering his hard childhood as an explanation for his grotesque behaviour.
nounˈwɪərɪs(ə)mnəsˈwɪrisəmnəs As the wearisomeness of it all began to overpower me, a lady rallied me, and said, ‘Well, are we not getting on charmingly?’ Example sentencesExamples - Allow me to give you a short anecdote, to vary the wearisomeness of my discourse.
- ‘We may not be always aware whither our steps are leading, but are only too fully conscious of the wearisomeness of the journey.’
- We characterize it in the same manner as melancholia, tristesse, ennui, annoyance and wearisomeness.
- As is usual in writings of its epoch, its style is diffuse and verbose, even to wearisomeness; but these defects are superficial merely, and the reader will be well repaid by its perusal.
Definition of wearisome in US English: wearisomeadjectiveˈwɪrisəmˈwirēsəm Causing one to feel tired or bored. 使疲倦的;使厌倦的,乏味的 they have schedules and inventories that tell them in wearisome detail what they should look for they insisted on his presence at wearisome musical soirées Example sentencesExamples - In such a situation, ‘everything is either oversimplified or reduced to a wearisome incomprehensibility.’
- He is criticised for not offering or saying anything new, although he must feel the questions are equally wearisome: Will he sack the manager?
- For most of us, the lack of daylight is a wearisome fact of life.
- Our national character might also find the ever-smiling country club environment wearisome.
- In fact, the film might have worked better if it had been made for the small screen, although with its sloppy characterisation and lifeless, wearisome narrative, it's arguable whether it should have been made at all.
- At the end of a wearisome session the temptation was to accept what he had to say simply to escape.
- And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch.
- Permanently traumatized by her brutal violation, Urania flees the Dominican Republic for a sterile and wearisome expatriate existence before she belatedly returns one final time to her fatherland.
- Their little world became wearisome and difficult as alliances broke and were reformed.
- It's sometimes wearisome, sometimes amusing, to see partisan Democrats and Republicans constantly accusing the other side of things that both sides are constantly guilty of.
- This is all true, but two hundred pages of it do become rather wearisome.
- But perhaps more wearisome are the judgements made every day, the belief that veiled women are uneducated, downtrodden and oppressed, the passive victims of a highly restrictive Muslim patriarchy.
- By itself, it offers few magic answers, but it spurs the client's imagination to be creative, to consider new ideas and modes of behavior, and to find novel solutions to wearisome problems.
- How can the government expect these girls to change when they are taught to live a tedious and wearisome life?
- The relentlessness of the jokes grows wearisome, and the ending is perfunctory and trite.
- He manages to do or say something really annoying and despicable so often that it's wearisome.
- That's fun when you start, but after 15 years it can become wearisome.
- But after a point the ridiculousness of the plot becomes a bit wearisome.
- But their increasingly wearisome antics are not going to win many new friends.
- It would be wearisome to go into any more detail.
Synonyms tiring, exhausting, wearying, fatiguing, enervating, draining, sapping, stressful, wearing, crushing |