What's the difference between boredom and tiresome?

Boredom


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
  • (n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
  • (2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
  • (3) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
  • (4) Is boredom, then, one of the risks associated with great art?
  • (5) It's why he wages his own one-man war in the cinema against boredom: you can experience many things watching his films, but you will never complain of longueurs.
  • (6) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
  • (7) It was concluded that ACTH 4-10 counteracts the usual decay in performance as a function of time-on-task due to increasing boredom and mental fatigue.
  • (8) The Boredom Susceptibility subscale of the SSS correlated significantly with the number of sexual partners.
  • (9) One detainee I spoke to told me of racist taunting and abuse by guards, and boredom.
  • (10) Now, the Estonian architecture studio Salto has built an equally inventive solution to the boredom of the morning commute – a 51m (170ft) -long trampoline, so that you can bounce to your destination .
  • (11) These include Paul Helleu hard at work, his new young wife apparently asleep out of boredom in the background.
  • (12) Correlations between partners in the control couples were higher than those between partners in the dysfunctional couples on the SSS Total and Boredom Susceptibility scales, which replicated previous findings.
  • (13) He works the levers of public approval with consummate skill, yet can never quite conceal his slight boredom at how easy it is.
  • (14) The players complain of boredom, and yet don't appear to be able to apply themselves and concentrate.
  • (15) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
  • (16) Abnormal eating behaviors such as pica or coprophagy are usually caused by a dietary imbalance or boredom.
  • (17) , who grew his tache in 2010 because of “self-employed procrastination” ie boredom, but is reluctant to shave his off because it would make him look younger.
  • (18) What's staggering is that boredom still has such a wholesome, desirable image.
  • (19) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
  • (20) Responses to subjective questionnaires showed significant increases in boredom for both groups.

Tiresome


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
  • (2) Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter Read more While LGBT characters have maintained some form of visibility within independent cinema, they have been parodied, stereotyped and used for tiresome gay-panic humour in their rare appearances in studio films.
  • (3) Lord Salisbury, for example, wrote: "I must confess that I am not very happy that you should use part of what was very much an off-the-record conversation..." but then apologised in a handwritten note, "Please forgive me for being so tiresome about it."
  • (4) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
  • (5) Even at Newcastle last season, tiresome lines about umbrellas were all too common and it is hardly a wild assumption to suggest McClaren will be shadowed by his failings at Wembley no matter where he ends up in the future.
  • (6) This method can be used with all kinds of ligand but it is particularly useful for those ligands having the tiresome tendency to adhere to the cells non-specifically or to polymerize by themselves.
  • (7) The nine-channel pipetting reduced the time necessary for pipetting to about one third as compared to the corresponding one channel pipetting, and made the pipetting less tiresome.
  • (8) But on this day of days not even a tiresome intervention from John Bercow could draw a frown from Nero's brow.
  • (9) Rather than being offered some much-needed diversity, we’ve been given a stale reminder of the tiresome heteronormativity that continues to stifle change within blockbusters.
  • (10) Then there’s the even more tiresome question of why these racist men support Chelsea even though it has so many black players.
  • (11) Still, up for anything food related, I find myself in a central London flat (it’s central London only; of course it is) signing up for Supper in anticipation of some posh nosh without the need for all that tiresome restaurant-going.
  • (12) And yes, the “artfully distressed” or “industrial” interiors of 99.9% of new restaurants and bars these days is becoming a bit tiresome.
  • (13) Trenberth said that the website has made it easier to respond to scientific inaccuracies, but that the constant attacks on his and his colleagues' work by skeptic groups "is tiresome."
  • (14) The traditional tiresome English lionheart schtick does not work in the modern game.
  • (15) Played here by Anthony Hopkins , in facial prosthesis and fake belly, and the neither tiny nor particularly birdlike Helen Mirren, Hitch and Alma appear as an indissoluble partnership in art and life, suddenly threatened by pressures from without (no budget) but more from within, particularly by Alfred's tendency, now tiresome to the red-haired Alma, to become obsessed with his leading blondes.
  • (16) According to the author's data, forced insomnia precedes that psychosis in all the cases; it lasts from 2 to 5 days, being consequent on a tiresome journey.
  • (17) The idea of the flame and its journey is to imbue the branded and, I have to say, slightly tiresome modern Olympiad with the spirit of the games that were first held in 776BC in honour of Zeus.
  • (18) It gets tiresome having to do the same thing over and over.
  • (19) The extras have been feigning Costa Del Lols for hours, and it's getting tiresome.
  • (20) Thus was born the so-called Curse of the Bambino, maybe the most tiresome narrative in the history of American sports.