Tiresome vs. Tiring — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tiresome and Tiring
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Tiresome
Causing one to feel bored or annoyed
Weeding is a tiresome but essential job
Tiring
To lose energy or strength; grow weary
When you're sick, you tend to tire easily.
Tiresome
Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome.
Tiring
To grow bored or impatient
The audience tired after the first 30 minutes of the movie.
Tiresome
Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
Eventually his long stories became tiresome.
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Tiring
To diminish the energy or strength; fatigue
The long walk tired me.
Tiresome
Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.
Tiring
To exhaust the interest or patience of.
Tiresome
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
A boring evening with uninteresting people
The deadening effect of some routine tasks
A dull play
His competent but dull performance
A ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
What an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Tedious days on the train
The tiresome chirping of a cricket
Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
Tiring
To adorn or attire.
Tiring
Attire.
Tiring
A headband or headdress.
Tiring
Present participle of tire
Tiring
(uncountable) The action of tiring.
Tiring
(falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.
Tiring
That tires or tire.
Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.
Tiring
Producing exhaustion;
An exhausting march
The visit was especially wearing
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