Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring. synonym: boring.
- adjective Obsolete Moving or progressing very slowly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearisome; irksome; tiresome.
- Annoying; disagreeable; offensive; uncongenial.
- Slow; slow-going: as, a tedious course.
- Synonyms Tiresome, Irksome, etc. See
wearisome .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Boring ,monotonous , time consuming,wearisome .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- adjective using or containing too many words
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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CARROLL: Truckers say a ban would slow deliveries and make what they call a tedious job worse.
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CARROLL: Truckers say a ban would slow deliveries and make what they call a tedious job worse.
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Also becoming tedious is the sight of the brothers pinned against walls and demons coming out of peoples mouths.
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In school this is where teachers dragged out a boring five-paragraph essay by adding in tedious research, and mind-numbing outlines, before letting you just hammer out the rough draft like you wanted to do in the first place.
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In fact he went blind writing adolescent plots to rule the world in tedious and long winded detail under the bedclothes.
Archive 2007-09-23 Newmania 2007
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We continued our discussion by switching to the long-term tedious nuclear dossier of Iran.
The U.S. has 'no moral standing' to criticize Iran: Zunes 2009
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In fact he went blind writing adolescent plots to rule the world in tedious and long winded detail under the bedclothes.
The New Nixon Newmania 2007
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All of this sturm und drang is just plain tedious, with the same sides making the same invalid arguments and accusations.
The Latest Teacup Tempest Hal Duncan 2007
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He wants us to see the world differently and to act to change it, but to drop the also uniquely American idea that political change can be fast and easy: one demonstration or election means little, he warns us; we need long-term tedious activism.
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He wants us to see the world differently and to act to change it, but to drop the also uniquely American idea that political change can be fast and easy: one demonstration or election means little, he warns us; we need long-term tedious activism.
Chomsky's New Book 2005
oroboros commented on the word tedious
Sounds like the letters T D S.
May 17, 2008
dbekeny commented on the word tedious
SCARECROW
Oh, I'm not feeling at all well. You see,
it's very tedious being stuck up here all
day long with a pole up your back.
June 11, 2010