tiresome
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++tire·some /ˈtaɪəsəm $ ˈtaɪr-/ ●○○ adjective ANNOYmaking you feel annoyed or impatient 烦人的，令人厌烦的 the whole tiresome business of filling out the forms 填写表格这套烦人事 ► Do not confuse with tiring (=making you feel tired): It was a long, tiring day.不要与 tiring 混淆: It was a long， tiring day. 这是漫长而累人的一天。Examples from the Corpus
tiresome• Awards shows can get awfully tiresome.• And besides, Kip was having fun at my expense, and that too had become newly tiresome.• Regular weeding is a tiresome but essential job.• Epoch says you should withdraw your attention when faced with a tiresome child.• It has been a tiresome day.• This was relatively easy in the published bibliography, but made for many tiresome expansions online.• Those in my tiresome generation who thought 25 years ago it was so very distinctive, so in, to swear.• The boys' hormone-driven posturings get pretty tiresome pretty fast.tire·some adjectiveChineseSyllable
you feel annoyed Corpus making impatient or
tiresome
tire‧some /ˈtaɪəsəm $ ˈtaɪr-/
adjective
the whole tiresome business of filling out the forms
► Do not confuse with tiring (=making you feel tired): It was a long, tiring day.
tire‧some /ˈtaɪəsəm $ ˈtaɪr-/
adjective Word Family: adjective: tired, tireless, tiresome, tiring; verb: tire; noun: tiredness; adverb: tirelessly
making you feel annoyed or impatient: ► Do not confuse with tiring (=making you feel tired): It was a long, tiring day.