Meaning

1 senses
  1. Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

    Gardening can be wearisome work.

    ermüdend, langweilig, lästig

More definitions
  • so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The work required to investigate that is boring and wearisome.

  2. Weeding is wearisome work.

    ruПрополка сорняков — утомительная работа. — Wezel

    deUnkraut jäten ist eine mühsame Arbeit. — Adelpa

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  3. Being around Tom is wearisome.

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  4. It would be wearisome to enumerate the jurists who have subscribed to this theory in one shape or another.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
tedious:

Origin

From Middle English werisom, equivalent to weary + -some.

From Middle English werisom, equivalent to weary + -some.

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