Modifying Another Word

• very: It was very wearisome work, as the road generally ran across a glaring hot sandy plain, not far from the coast.

• rather: And, as Frasier once pointed out, it's format is also rather wearisome.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The country wore the same aspect, till at last the fine green turf became more wearisome than a dusty turnpike road.

• seem: The task of the shepherd, the task of the fisher of men, can often seem wearisome.

• grow: The problem is that phone keys grow wearisome if you want to write more than a sentence or so.

• get: Such addresses get wearisome, and on the whole they don't work.

• prove: This is a tactic which is proving wearisome, yet amounts to nothing less than the deliberate deception of the electorate.

Modifies a noun

• task: He says that it was a wearisome task until I entered the sanctuary.

• work: It was very wearisome work, as the road generally ran across a glaring hot sandy plain, not far from the coast.