Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring. See Synonyms at boring.
- adj. Obsolete Moving or progressing very slowly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wearisome; irksome; tiresome.
- Annoying; disagreeable; offensive; uncongenial.
- Slow; slow-going: as, a tedious course.
- Synonyms Tiresome, Irksome, etc. See wearisome.
Wiktionary
- adj. Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- adj. using or containing too many words
Etymologies
- Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium ("weariness, tedium"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium, tedium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“CARROLL: Truckers say a ban would slow deliveries and make what they call a tedious job worse.”
“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.”
“Also becoming tedious is the sight of the brothers pinned against walls and demons coming out of peoples mouths.”
“We continued our discussion by switching to the long-term tedious nuclear dossier of Iran.”
“In fact he went blind writing adolescent plots to rule the world in tedious and long winded detail under the bedclothes.”
“All of this sturm und drang is just plain tedious, with the same sides making the same invalid arguments and accusations.”
“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.”
“A very busy weekend, indeed, which I will record here later in tedious and unnecessary detail.”
“The word tedious was invented to describe this task.”
“In my lab, molecular analysis was begun rather late, as we felt it important to investigate the properties of the individual genes as carefully as possible before embarking in tedious molecular cloning, that was not easy at the time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tedious’.
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hunting
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
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every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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random
good words that i think of at random times.
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ballast, buoyant, clamber, detach, eerie, fathom, pique, probe, realize, rupture, sphere, submerge and 3 more...
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vocab 10
unscathed, ultimate, tedious, submerge, sphere, rupture, realize, probe, pique, fathom, eerie, detach and 3 more...
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Lesson 11 Vocabulary
Ballast, buoyant, detach, eerie, fathom, pique, probe, realize, rupture, sphere, submerge, tedious and 2 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tedious.
dbekeny 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.
Jun 11, 2010
oroboros Sounds like the letters T D S. May 16, 2008