(a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausting; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey\; a tiresome discourse.

aggravating annoying bland boresome boring bothering bothersome burdensome common commonplace difficult disagreeable disturbing draining drudging dull exasperating exhausting fatiguesome fatiguing flat galling grueling harassing hard humdrum hypnotic importunate importune insipid irking irksome irritating jading killing matter-of-fact monotonous mundane onerous oppressive ordinary pedestrian pesky pestering pestiferous pestilent pestilential plaguesome plaguey plaguing plain poetryless prosaic prosing prosy provoking punishing soporific straining stressful stupefyingly boring stuporific teasing tedious tiring toilsome tormenting troublesome troubling trying unembellished unidealistic unimaginative unimpassioned uninteresting unpleasant unpoetic unromantic vapid vexatious vexing weariful wearing wearisome wearying worrisome worrying yawny