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# wearisome

«wearisome» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making you feel tired, bored or fed up, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wearisome; more wearisome, most wearisome)

### meaning for a pupil

Making you feel tired, bored or fed up, especially because it goes on too long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A rather formal or literary word; in everyday talk people say "tiring", "boring" or "tedious". In stories it describes long journeys, dull jobs or someone who keeps complaining. Phrases: "a wearisome journey", "a wearisome task".

### examples

- The long walk home in the rain was wearisome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x1)
- Copying out the same sentence twenty times was a wearisome task. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x2)
- The knight began his wearisome journey across the mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x3)
- His endless complaining became wearisome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x4)
- Waiting in the queue all afternoon was wearisome for everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x5)
- The old woman found the stairs wearisome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x6)
- Never, never before, did I have such a wearisome task! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/#x7)

### note

From "weary" (very tired) plus -some. Spelling: y changes to i. Pronounced WEER-ee-sum. Similar: tiresome, tedious. It does not mean "worrying".

### In the corpora

- [And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1235/)
- [So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.153/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wearisome» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wearisome/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.