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| Main Entry: | tiresome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating, exasperating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arduous, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, dull, exacting, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, humdrum, irksome, laborious, monotonous, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, yawn*, a bit much, boresome, drudging, enervative, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, jading, nowhere, uncool, unrelieved, wearying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause weariness, disinterest |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Antonyms: | amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | cloy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | disgust, fill, glut, gorge, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, suffice, surfeit, weary, jade, stodge |
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary, jade |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, strengthen, liven |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | burn out*, bush*, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fizzle, flag, knock out*, languish, peter out*, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, weaken, wear down, weary, bedraggle, conk out*, fag, jade, overtire, poop, poop out*, tucker |
| Antonyms: | energize, refresh, envigorate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog*, inundate, load, overload, overwhelm, pack*, pall, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf*, congest, jade, make a pig of, overfeed, overstock, raven |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat voraciously |
| Synonyms: | bolt*, cloy, cram, devour, feed, fill, glut, gobble, gormandize, gulp, guzzle, jam, overeat, pack, sate, satiate, stuff*, surfeit, swallow, wolf*, blimp out, congest, eat like a horse, hoover, jade, make a pig of, overindulge |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bore, tire |
| Synonyms: | cloy, disgust, fill, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, sicken, surfeit, weary, become dull, become tedious, jade |
| Antonyms: | brighten, excite, make happy |
| Main Entry: | satiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stuff, satisfy completely or excessively |
| Synonyms: | cloy, content, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, nauseate, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit, feed to gills, jade, overdose, overfill |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting |
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | cloy, cram, eat, fill, glut, gorge, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, stuff, jade, overfeed, overindulge |
| Antonyms: | deplete, use up |
| Main Entry: | tire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exhaust, weary |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bore, burn out*, bush*, collapse, crawl, debilitate, deject, depress, disgust, dishearten, displease, distress, drain, droop, drop, enervate, ennui, exasperate, fail, faint, fatigue, flag, fold, harass, irk, irritate, nauseate, overburden, overwork, pain, pall, peter out*, prostrate, sap, sicken, sink, strain, tax, vex, weaken, wear, wear down, wear out, wilt, worry, yawn*, dispirit, fag, give out, go stale, grow weary, jade, overstrain, overtax, poop out*, put to sleep |
| Antonyms: | activate, energize, invigorate, refresh, fire up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrode, use |
| Synonyms: | abrade, chafe, consume, crumble, cut down, decay, decline, decrease, deteriorate, diminish, drain, dwindle, erode, exhaust, fade, fatigue, fray, gall, graze, grind, impair, overwork, rub, scrape, shrink, tax, tire, waste, wear out, weary, weather, be worthless, become threadbare, become worn, go to seed, jade, overuse, scrape off, scuff, use up, wash away, wear thin |
| Antonyms: | freshen, rebuild, refresh |
| Main Entry: | weary |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make tired |
| Synonyms: | annoy, bore, burden, cloy, debilitate, depress, disgust, dishearten, distress, drain, droop, enervate, enfeeble, exasperate, exhaust, fade, fail, fall off, fatigue, flag, glut, harass, irk, nauseate, oppress, overwork, pain, plague, sap, sicken, sink, strain, tax, tire, vex, weaken, wear down, wear out, weigh, cause ennui, drowse, fag, grow tired, have had enough, jade, leave one cold, lose interest, make discontented, take it out of, tire out, try the patience of, tucker out |
| Antonyms: | activate, energize, enliven |
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