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Definition of tedious in English: tediousadjective ˈtiːdɪəsˈtidiəs Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous. Example sentencesExamples - It must also be done within the planning process even if it seems tedious and time consuming.
- This movie is tedious and tiring for the audience simply because it is overwhelming.
- Wages are low, hours are long and tedious, and management are often brittle and abrasive.
- Even when done in the darkroom at home, colour film processing is a long, tedious process.
- Lack of a break after a long year's tedious work will reduce the efficiency of teachers.
- So it may be only a hundred miles or so each way but they are tough miles, hard on the driver and tedious for the passenger.
- This is traditional in thrillers, and sometimes I have found it tedious and unlikely.
- Running or researching can sometimes be hard work, very tedious and very competitive.
- There are few things more tedious than the preoccupations of people for whom the drug scene has become a way of life.
- It's a long, tedious interview, and I'm not going to go through it point by point.
- After a long and tedious journey, I reached Bled, the place where the conference was to be held.
- Well, I must admit that I was slightly worried that it might be a rather long and tedious affair.
- Climbing down the side of the cliff looked far too tedious and slow for his likes.
- It was laborious and tedious and horrible, but it got me interested in math.
- These magazines are good for a laugh but they get really really tedious and brain-numbing.
- Later today I head off to the airport for the tedious flight back to Europe.
- Also, its an easy way to keep your interest in what can seem to be a tedious routine at times.
- We might even find it a bit tedious to keep reading about it in the papers.
- The work was slow and tedious because it yielded such a huge amount of information.
- Machines and technology are here to make our lives easier, not to do boring, tedious tasks for us.
Synonyms boring, monotonous, dull, deadly dull, uninteresting, unexciting, unvaried, unvarying, lacking variety, mind-numbing, mindless, soul-destroying, soulless, humdrum, dreary, ho-hum, mundane, wearisome, wearying, tiresome, soporific, dry, as dry as dust, arid, lifeless, colourless, monochrome, uninspired, uninspiring, flat, plodding, slow, banal, vapid, insipid, bland, lacklustre, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, pedestrian, jejune, leaden, heavy long-drawn-out, overlong, long-winded, prolix, laborious, ponderous, endless, interminable mechanical, routine Scottish dreich informal deadly, draggy British informal samey North American informal dullsville
Derivatives adverb ˈtiːdɪəsliˈtidiəsli Their servers are still being tediously slow and subject to long intervals of non-availability. Example sentencesExamples - It's a tediously slow job checking all the sites and sorting out the queue.
- Most people are dreading it, convinced that the sessions will be tediously boring.
- The defense is very tediously going through their evidence.
- Even at 50 minutes, the film tediously tries ones patience; there might only be enough material here for a ten or fifteen-minute short.
noun ˈtiːdɪəsnəsˈtidiəsnəs Rather than dwelling on the tediousness of, say, running in the pool with a flotation belt for non-impact workouts, she visualized these sessions as steps toward the bigger picture - stabilizing her knee and getting back on skis. Example sentencesExamples - There were no tables of water in sight, though, and the tediousness of the walk was starting to get to me.
- But that doesn't excuse the film entirely, given the poor quality of most of the action sequences, the unsuitability of its leading man and the overall tediousness of proceedings.
- This will help them acquire useful skills without the monotony and tediousness of a regular school session.
- Under such a system, much of the tediousness of gross photography, such as sticker labeling, sticker removal, and image sorting will disappear.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French tedieus or late Latin taediosus, from Latin taedium (see tedium). Definition of tedious in US English: tediousadjectiveˈtēdēəsˈtidiəs Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous. Example sentencesExamples - This movie is tedious and tiring for the audience simply because it is overwhelming.
- Later today I head off to the airport for the tedious flight back to Europe.
- Climbing down the side of the cliff looked far too tedious and slow for his likes.
- There are few things more tedious than the preoccupations of people for whom the drug scene has become a way of life.
- We might even find it a bit tedious to keep reading about it in the papers.
- These magazines are good for a laugh but they get really really tedious and brain-numbing.
- Wages are low, hours are long and tedious, and management are often brittle and abrasive.
- Running or researching can sometimes be hard work, very tedious and very competitive.
- So it may be only a hundred miles or so each way but they are tough miles, hard on the driver and tedious for the passenger.
- Lack of a break after a long year's tedious work will reduce the efficiency of teachers.
- It's a long, tedious interview, and I'm not going to go through it point by point.
- The work was slow and tedious because it yielded such a huge amount of information.
- After a long and tedious journey, I reached Bled, the place where the conference was to be held.
- Also, its an easy way to keep your interest in what can seem to be a tedious routine at times.
- It was laborious and tedious and horrible, but it got me interested in math.
- Machines and technology are here to make our lives easier, not to do boring, tedious tasks for us.
- Well, I must admit that I was slightly worried that it might be a rather long and tedious affair.
- Even when done in the darkroom at home, colour film processing is a long, tedious process.
- It must also be done within the planning process even if it seems tedious and time consuming.
- This is traditional in thrillers, and sometimes I have found it tedious and unlikely.
Synonyms boring, monotonous, dull, deadly dull, uninteresting, unexciting, unvaried, unvarying, lacking variety, mind-numbing, mindless, soul-destroying, soulless, humdrum, dreary, ho-hum, mundane, wearisome, wearying, tiresome, soporific, dry, as dry as dust, arid, lifeless, colourless, monochrome, uninspired, uninspiring, flat, plodding, slow, banal, vapid, insipid, bland, lacklustre, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, pedestrian, jejune, leaden, heavy
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French tedieus or late Latin taediosus, from Latin taedium (see tedium). |