as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
what a tiresome church service that turned out to be
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Recent Examples of tiresome
This could all easily get tiresome quite quickly, but the director has a light touch thanks to his poppy, direct style — colorful close-ups, broad line deliveries, simple cuts.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
Naked dressing can be so tiresome … and missing the point is never on trend.
—Alison Edmond, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
This person has been nothing but kind to us in all our years of knowing them, but the awkward gift exchange is getting tiresome.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
These lazy, tiresome, played out lies are both unacceptable and unsurprising.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
Naked dressing can be so tiresome … and missing the point is never on trend.
—Alison Edmond, HollywoodReporter, 23 Dec. 2025
This person has been nothing but kind to us in all our years of knowing them, but the awkward gift exchange is getting tiresome.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
These lazy, tiresome, played out lies are both unacceptable and unsurprising.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiresome
Adjective
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The boring lunch ends boringly, with the women sipping their champagne in silence, tucking into their salads, and ignoring the commemorative glasses that no one wanted.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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This sounds like a boring event but the boys turn the act of breaking up ice or sleet sheets from the sidewalk into a hockey-like competition.—
Caleb Harris,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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It's been a cold, tiring week, but the light at the end of the tunnel that is a Saturday at Ikea picking out lamp shades is finally within sight.—
Joe Mutascio,
IndyStar,
6 Feb. 2026
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But studies have also shown that consuming caffeine before a mentally tiring task reduces the feeling of cognitive fatigue.—
Katharine Gammon,
Time,
6 Feb. 2026
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That builds on similar trends throughout 2025, when the industry buoyed an otherwise slow labor market, as the nation’s hospitals, clinics and nursing homes kept hiring even as many employers pulled back.—
Abha Bhattarai,
Washington Post,
14 Feb. 2026
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Any type of realism was [limited to] very short clips, everything was very slow, bad textures, no skin textures, lacking detail.—
Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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But maybe Johnson isn’t stupid.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Such as the one where the candidate remarked that some white rural Americans were stupid and racist.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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The hospice is small and modest, run by a group of French nuns, built in 1827 as a respite for weary pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Feb. 2026
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Kraft Heinz, like all big food companies, is also grappling with inflation-weary buyers cutting back spending or switching to generic labels as well as the rise of GLP-1 drugs hurting demand for snack food.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But all work and no play can make for a dull chief medical officer.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
30 Jan. 2026
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People living in Bridgeville were excited to see dull pavement.—
Chris Hoffman,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Given James is 41 years old, there was always going to be load management absences, especially on back-to-backs.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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Brain game may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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This one, in a dusty olive green, has a high pile texture and subtle geometric design for the right amount of visual interest.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
13 Feb. 2026
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Mattresses and questionably clean bedding were dredged up, dusty couches cleared of detritus.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Tiresome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiresome. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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