| tedious | | |
| adj. | 1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome | 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"; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" |
| ~ uninteresting | arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement.; "a very uninteresting account of her trip" |
| adj. | 2. long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy | using or containing too many words.; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" |
| ~ prolix | tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length.; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know" |
| weary | | |
| v. (body) | 1. fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| ~ indispose | cause to feel unwell.; "She was indisposed" |
| ~ exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up, beat | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| ~ overfatigue, overtire, overweary | tire excessively. |
| ~ fatigue, jade, tire, weary, pall | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| v. (body) | 2. fatigue, jade, pall, tire, weary | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| ~ degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ poop out, conk out, peter out, run down, run out | use up all one's strength and energy and stop working.; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" |
| ~ retire, withdraw | lose interest.; "he retired from life when his wife died" |
| adj. | 3. aweary, weary | physically and mentally fatigued.; "`aweary' is archaic" |
| ~ tired | depleted of strength or energy.; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" |
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