WEARISOME
ADJECTIVES
► BURTHENSOME burdensome, onerous, cumbersome, oppressive, troublesome, wearisome → 1578
► CUMBERSOME causing trouble, annoyance, or inconvenience; troublesome, wearisome, oppressive → 1535 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FAGGIE fatiguing, tiresome, wearisome → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FAGSUM fatiguing, tiresome, wearisome → 1825 Sc. obs.
► FASTIDIOUS that creates disgust; disagreeable, distasteful, unpleasant, wearisome → 1531 obs.
► FULSOME wearisome from excess or repetition; tedious → c1430 obs.
► HAGGLING vexatious, trying, wearisome → 1902 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LAGGING toilsome, wearisome, fatiguing → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LONGSOME long, lengthy, tediously long, wearisome by its length; long-lasting → c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial
► MORTAL long and wearisome; boring → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SAPLESS of persons: wearisome, tedious → 1680
► TAIGLESOME wearisome, tiring, tedious → 1912 Sc.
► TAIVERSOME tedious, wearisome; annoying, vexatious → 1808 Sc.
► TARRYSOME characterized by tarrying; slow, lingering; wearisome → 1513 Sc. obs.
► TEDDISOME ► TIDDYSOM tedious, wearisome → 1824 Eng. dial.
► TEDIOUSOME tedious, wearisome → 1824 Sc.
► YAWNFUL inclined to yawn; wearisome, tedious → 1878
► YAWNSOME inclined to yawn; wearisome, tedious → 1900
NOUNS
► FAG a bore; a chore; an unpleasant, tedious task; anything that causes weariness, hard work, toil, drudgery, fatigue; a wearisome thing→ 1780 colloq.
► POLE-WORK a long, wearisome business → 1870 colloq.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PALAVER a wearisome talker; a person of silly, fussy and ostentatious manners → 1895 Sc.
► TEELYTOON a teasing, fretful, wearisome child → 19C Eng. dial.
VERBS
► IMPORTUNE to burden; to be troublesome or wearisome to; to trouble, to worry, to pester, to annoy → 1578 obs.
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