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tiresome

adj
/ˈtaɪɚsəm/US/ˈtaɪəsəm/UK

Etymology

From tire + -some.

  1. derived from *dews-✻ — “to fail, be behind, lag”
  2. inherited from *teuʀōn✻ — “to cease”
  3. inherited from tȳrian
  4. inherited from tiren
  5. suffixed as tiresome — “tire + some”

Definitions

  1. Causing fatigue or boredom

    Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

    • Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tiresome. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01tiresome02boredom03bored04annoyed05annoyance06annoying07annoy08bother09burden10wearisome

A definitional loop anchored at tiresome. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at tiresome

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA