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What is the adjective for tiresome?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb tire which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tired
  1. In need of some rest or sleep.
  2. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
  3. Overused, cliché.
  4. (slang, African American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent
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  6. Examples:
    1. “He was incredibly tired and plonked himself on the couch after a hard day at work.”
      “I am so tired of this dead-end job.”
      “He did very little other than regurgitate a tired old line that seemed to have been repeated to death by many a politician.”
tireless
  1. Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Roy's tireless work is recognized this year by an award for community service.”
      “His injury-time matchwinner was a fitting reward for a tireless, wholehearted, committed performance.”
      “He's courageous, fast, tireless and certainly not squeamish about being in at the kill.”
tirelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tire (protective wheel covering).
tireless
  1. Without a tire (wheel covering); tyreless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Roy's tireless work is recognized this year by an award for community service.”
      “His injury-time matchwinner was a fitting reward for a tireless, wholehearted, committed performance.”
      “He's courageous, fast, tireless and certainly not squeamish about being in at the kill.”
tiresome
  1. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There's nothing more tiresome for a reader than seeing the same tiresome words over and over in the same paragraph.”
      “It would serve him well to speak such compliments to my face, instead of his tiresome insults.”
      “Allie had no choice but to follow him as they began their tiresome trek across the wide, empty beach.”
tireling
  1. (obsolete) Tired; fatigued.
tiring
  1. That tires or tire.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He collapsed on the couch after a tiring day at work.”
      “After her long and tiring speech, which, I'm sure, nobody actually listened to, she handed out our syllabuses and assignments for this term.”
tireder
  1. comparative form of tired: more tired
  2. Examples:
    1. “I'm tireder nor a claybank hoss arter a hard day's plowin', an' I'm ez dry ez a lime-kiln.”
      “And might that not also be the reason for his worsened complexion and the tireder look that appeared in his eyes?”
      “The anti-war movement was older and tireder, but also broader, than it had ever been before.”
tiredest
  1. superlative form of tired: most tired
  2. Examples:
    1. “This month, I want to find the rumptiest, tiredest, most out of date house in all of Auckland!”
      “Then what could have been a delicious characterization of a woman sworn to magic turns into the tiredest story ever told.”
      “From the tiredest brass section he could coax sounds that would deafen less dramatic conductors. Born in 1912 in Budapest, he studied composition there with Bartok and Dohnanyi.”
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