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wearisome

Syllables: wea·ri·some/ˈwɪəɹisəm/

wearisome adjective: tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.

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Adjective

wearisome (comparative more wearisome, superlative most wearisome)

  1. Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.
    • Gardening can be wearisome work.
    • Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but...1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714

wearisome meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

wearisome in Urdu

اجیرن, مشکل

wearisome in Malayalam

ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, ദുർഘടമായ, ക്ഷീണിപ്പിക്കുന്ന

wearisome in Kannada

ಬಳಲಿದ, ಆಲಸ್ಯಹೊಂದಿರುವ, ಆಯಾಸದಿಂದ ಇರುವ, ಶ್ರಮದ, ಶ್ರಮದಾಯಕ, ಬೇಸರ ಹೊಂದಿದ

Examples of wearisome in a sentence

  • Laborious experiment to discover the facts about our environment is wearisome to all but a persistent few.
  • Following these conversions, the Knights Templars noted their exhaustion from the wearisome Crusade which began over two years earlier in Rome.
  • After playing with them in BG1, BG2, IWD1 and now NWN, the same old spells are becoming somewhat wearisome.

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Synonyms of wearisome

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Antonyms

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Forms of wearisome

comparativemore wearisome
superlativemost wearisome

Origin of wearisome

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

Words formed from wearisome

Words that rhyme with wearisome

Questions about wearisome

What does wearisome mean?
Wearisome means tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.
What is wearisome in Urdu?
Wearisome in Urdu is اجیرن, مشکل. See Wearisome meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wearisome?
Wearisome is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wearisome?
Wearisome is pronounced /ˈwɪəɹisəm/.

Words near wearisome in the dictionary

  1. wearingly
  2. wearings
  3. wearish
  4. wearishness
  5. wearisom
  6. wearisome
  7. wearisomely
  8. wearisomeness
  9. wearisomenesses
  10. Wearmouth
  11. wearout

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wearisome (page history and authors); wearisome (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wearisome (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wearisome (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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