tiresome Copy link Outline 1. lăbōriōsus (toilsome)2. diffĭcĭlis (difficult, hard to deal with)3. mŏlestus (trying to the patience)4. importūnus (t. by being mal-a-propos) • tiresome: 1. lăbōriōsus (toilsome): a most t. task, opus laboriosissimum, Liv. 5, 19. 2. diffĭcĭlis (difficult, hard to deal with): nothing is so easy but that it is t. when you do it against your will, nulla est res tam facilis quin difficilis siet quam invitus facias, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 1: a t. old man, d. senex, ib. 3, 2, 24. 3. mŏlestus (trying to the patience): don't be tiresome, molestus ne sies, Pl. Asin. 2, 4, 63: a laborious and t. task, labor operosus ac molestus, Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59. 4. importūnus (t. by being mal-a-propos): I own she is t. and troublesome, fateor eam esse importunam atque incommodam, Pl. Asin. 1, 1, 47. Phr.: a t. business, lentum negotium, Cic.: to be t. to any one, alicui negotium facessere, Cic.: molestiam afferre, Ter.: see what a tiresome old crone she is, importunitatem spectate aniculae, Ter. Andr. 1, 4, 4.