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Tiresome vs Gruesome - What's the difference?

tiresome | gruesome |

As adjectives the difference between tiresome and gruesome

is that tiresome is causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome while gruesome is repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly.

tiresome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
    • Eventually his long stories became tiresome .

    Synonyms

    * (causing fatigue or boredom ): boring, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, wearisome * See also

    Antonyms

    * (causing fatigue or boredom ): energizing, exciting, fresh, interesting

    gruesome

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • repellently frightful and shocking; horrific or ghastly
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=May 04 , title=Bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead citation , passage=Jay Carney said that the US was considering whether to release photos of bin Laden after he was killed on Sunday but that the photos were gruesome and could be inflammatory.}}