Wearisome

Definition: Wearisome

Wearisome

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "wearisome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Wearisome

Synonyms: boring (adj), deadening (adj), dull (adj), ho-hum (adj), irksome (adj), slow (adj), tedious (adj), tiresome (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Exertion	Laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric.
Fatigue	Fatiguing; Verb: tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.
Pain	Irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy; awkward.
Weariness	Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Wearisome

English words defined with "wearisome": Dree ♦ monotony ♦ Operose ♦ sameness ♦ To harp on one string ♦ Weariful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "wearisome": Camp ♦ Organ ♦ picture ♦ Tape. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Long and Wearisome Journey (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Blaise Pascal	Continued eloquence is wearisome.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	To consort with attorneys, to attend courts, to hunt up cases, was wearisome.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. "Behold great Daubert's picture here on view -- Taken from Life." If that description's true, Grant, heavenly Powers, that I be taken, too. Jali Hane
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"Wearisome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wearisome" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	35	58,339

Expression using "wearisome": wearisome of. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "wearisome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tedious, tiresome, weariful, weary), i lodhshëm (arduous, dull, irksome, laborious, long winded, pernickety, tedious, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, trying, wearing), i lodhët (fatiguing, harassing, irksome, tiresome). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, slow, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, weary), ‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, fatiguing, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tired, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, vexing, weary), ‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, slow, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, weary), ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, weary, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian		скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful), изморителен (taxing), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, weary). (various references)

Czech		nezáživný (dry, dull, stodgy), únavný (mindless, tedious, tiresome, trying, wearing). (various references)

Farsi		خسته کننده (Bore, Insipid, Monotonous, Prolix, Tedious, Tiresome). (various references)

Finnish		vaivalloinen (arduous, difficult, hard, laborious, onerous, troublesome, trying). (various references)

French		fatigant (weary). (various references)

German		ermüdend (back breaking, exhausting, fatigueing, fatiguing, irksome, strenuous, tedious, tediously, tireing, tiresome, tiresomely, tiring, wearing, weary, wearying). (various references)

Greek		ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, stodgy, tedious, uninteresting, weary). (various references)

Hebrew		מיגע (grueling, gruelling, illsome, laborious, tiresome, toilsome, uphill), מלאה (fatiguing, irksome, tedious, tiresome). (various references)

Hungarian		hosszadalmas (circumstantial, lengthy, lingering, livelong, long, long-drawn-out, long-winded, roundabout), fárasztó (against the collar, burdensome, difficult, exhausting, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, gruelling, irking, irksome, onerous, pain in the neck, stiff, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, uphill, warm, weariful, wearing). (various references)

Italian		tedioso (boring, irksome, tedious), stancante (weary), faticoso (arduous, arduously, difficult, grindingly, grueling, gruelling, hard, killing, labored, laborious, laboured, stiff, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, uphill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		味気無い (insipid, irksome, vain, wretched), 味気ない (insipid, irksome, vain, wretched). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あじきない (insipid, irksome, vain, wretched), あじけない (insipid, irksome, vain, wretched). (various references)

Manx		tooilleilagh (exacting, fatiguing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, wearing, wearying). (various references)

Pig Latin		earisomeway

Portuguese		tedioso (boring, drab, dull, lenience, pone, prolixity, tedious, tiresome, weariful), monótono (arid, drab, dreary, flat, humeral, monotone, monotonous, repetitious, singsong, vapid), fastidioso (annoying, boring, disgusting, drab, dull, fastidious, irksome, monotonous, pickup, stodgy, tedious, tiresome), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, weary), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgustful, drab, dreary, dull, dullness, ground, horrific, iron, jaded, meddler, morpheme, mumpish, ouzel, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, weary, worn out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian		plicticos (boring, bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, lifeless, musty, ponderous, stodgy, tedious, toilsome, vapid), obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, strenuous, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, weary), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, weary, weight, weighty). (various references)

Russian		утомительный (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, weariful, wearing, weary, wearying). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zamoran (exhausting, punishing, tiresome, tiring, trying, weariful, wearing). (various references)

Spanish		fastidioso (annoying, bothering, bothersome, fastidious, irksome, irritating, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, troublesome, trying, weary), aburrido (bored, boring, dry, dull, humdrum, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tired, tiresome, weary). (various references)

Swedish		tröttsam (fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, tiring). (various references)

Turkish		yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, weary, with an effort), yormak (attribute, cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, weary), usanmak (be fed up with, be sickened with, have done with, tire, wearisome of, weary), usandırıcı (wearing, weary), sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery), bıktırmak (cloy, crowd, disgust, do to death, give the willies, irk, Pall, pall on, sicken, tire, weary), bıktırıcı (disgusting, fulsome, irksome, prosy, sickening, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, weary), bıkmak (be sickened with, be tired of, get bored, get the willies, get tired, have done with, have had a bellyful of, sicken, tire, wearisome of, weary). (various references)

Ukranian		стомлюючий (wearying), виснажливий (all out, back breaking, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, killing, tiring, wasteful, wasting), набридливий (annoying, bothersome, nagging, pesky, pestilent, weary, worrisome), надокучливий (boring, busy, interfering, intrusive, officious, shrill, tiresome). (various references)

Vietnamese		mệt nhọc (aweary, tiresome), mệt (tired, wearied, weary), làm mệt chán ngắt; tẻ nhạt. (various references)

Welsh		blinderog. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Job Chapter 7, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	OutwV kagw upemeina mhnaV kenouV nukteV de odunwn dedomenai moi eisin
Latin	405	Vulgate	Sic et ego habui menses vacuos et noctes laboriosas enumeravi mihi
Jacobean English	1611	King James	So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Job Chapter 7, Verse 3
Albanian	kështu edhe mua më ranë muaj fatkeqësie dhe m'u caktuan net me dhembje.
Cebuano	Ingon man ako gihimo aron mahiagum sa mga bulan sa kaalaut, Ug mga gabii nga makapuol gitudlo kanako.
Croatian	mjeseci jada tako me zapadoše i noæi su muène meni dosuðene.
Danish	så fik jeg Skuffelses Måneder i Arv kvalfulde Nætter til Del.
Dutch	Alzo zijn mij maanden der ijdelheid ten erve geworden, en nachten der moeite zijn mij voorbereid.
Finnish	Niin olen minä perinyt kurjuuden kuukaudet, ja vaivan yöt ovat minun osakseni tulleet.
French	Ainsi j`ai pour partage des mois de douleur, J`ai pour mon lot des nuits de souffrance.
German	also habe ich wohl ganze Monden vergeblich gearbeitet, und elender Nächte sind mir viel geworden.
Haitian Creole	Depi kèk mwa, m' pa wè poukisa m'ap viv. Tout lannwit se soufri m'ap soufri.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Bulan demi bulan hidupku tanpa tujuan; malam demi malam hatiku penuh kesedihan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	demikianlah aku sudah beroleh pusaka kesia-siaan dan disediakan bagiku beberapa malam yang berkesukaran.
Italian	così a me son toccati mesi d'illusione e notti di dolore mi sono state assegnate.
Maori	Koia toku rite, ka whiwhi nei ki nga marama horihori, a he mauiui nga po kua whakaritea moku.
Norwegian	således har jeg fått i eie måneder fulle av nød, og møiefulle netter er falt i min lodd.
Portuguese	assim se me deram meses de escassez, e noites de aflição se me ordenaram.
Rumanian	awa am eu parte de luni de durere, wi partea mea sknt nopyi de suferinyq.
Russian	ФБЛ С РПМХЮЙМ Ч ХДЕМ НЕУСГЩ УХЕФОЩЕ, Й ОПЮЙ ЗПТЕУФОЩЕ ПФЮЙУМЕОЩ НОЕ.
Spanish	así he tenido que heredar meses de futilidad, y me han sido asignadas noches de sufrimiento.
Swedish	Så har jag fått till arvedel månader av elände; nätter av vedermöda hava blivit min lott.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "wearisome": wearisomely, wearisomeness, wearisomenesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "wearisome" (pronounced wi"rēsum)
4	-ē s u m	worrisome.
3	-s u m	adventuresome, awesome, Balsam, blossom, bothersome, burdensome, buxom, cataclysm, cumbersome, fearsome, flotsam, foursome, fulsome, gruesome, gypsum, handsome, hansom, irksome, loathsome, lonesome, Maxim, meddlesome, nettlesome, opossum, possum, quarrelsome, ransom, threesome, tiresome, transom, troublesome, twosome, venturesome, wholesome, winsome.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-m-o-r-s-w"
	-2 letters: awesome, seamier, semiraw, seriema, wearies, womeras.
	-3 letters: aeries, aimers, ameers, ariose, armies, easier, isomer, miaows, moires, mowers, ramees, ramies, ramose, remise, rimose, seamer, soiree, womera.
	-4 letters: aerie, aimer, ameer, amies, amirs, arise, arose, emirs, erase, erose, ewers, mairs, mares, marse, maser, meows, meres, miaow, mires, miser, moira, moire, morae, moras, mores, morse, mower.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-m-o-r-s-w"
	+2 letters: wearisomely.
	+3 letters: servicewoman.
	+4 letters: wearisomeness.
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