tedious English

Meaning tedious meaning

What does tedious mean?

Definitions in simple English

tedious Adjective

— Something that is tedious takes a long time to do and is boring. I've stopped making Flash movies because the process is tedious and more trouble than its worth.

tedious

— adjective (= boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tiresome, wearisome) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness a boring evening with uninteresting people the deadening effect of some routine tasks a dull play his competent but dull performance a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention what an irksome task the writing of long letters is — Edmund Burke tedious days on the train the tiresome chirping of a cricket — Mark Twain other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome

— adjective (= long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy) using or containing too many words long-winded (or windy) speakers verbose and ineffective instructional methods newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes

Synonyms tedious synonyms

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tedious English » English

boring

dull

tiresome

wearisome

monotonous

slow

irksome

long-winded

verbose

uninteresting

wordy

troublesome

tiring

sluggish

ho-hum

dreary

drab

difficult

windy

wearsome

stodgy

prosaic

prolix

long

lengthy

humdrum

hard

deadening

bothersome

be monotonous

annoying

worrying

weary of

weary

wearing

weariful

unstimulating

unbearable

tire of

snoozy

sickening

sick of

severe

repugnant

prosy

prosaical

pedestrian

painful

overlong

oppressive

Topics tedious topics

What do people use tedious to talk about?

Person Body condition

Tired

• What words describe something that makes someone tired?
  tiring exhausting wearing boring draining grueling taxing tedious wearisome wearying

Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored

• What words describe something that is uninteresting?
  uninteresting not very interesting boring dull tedious uneventful unexciting humdrum monotonous repetitive long-winded

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Simple sentences

The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Waiting for a train is tedious.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

The assignment was very difficult, requiring hours of tedious work.

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

Mary thinks that learning foreign languages is tedious and boring.

Typing capital letters on a computer is somewhat tedious.

It was a tedious job.

Movie subtitles

How tedious.

The image of purity. I'm sorry to have to take him. but royal life is filled with tedious obligations.

He opened my eyes, and I saw that the world can offer more wonderful things than tedious evenings with Fred.

Its very tedious being stuck up here all day long with a pole up your back.

I mean the encyclopedia, as a voyage, a long, hard, tedious one.

They've become stout and tedious.

It's such a tedious subject.

Clapham no longer held Sibella's presence to compensate me for the tedious journey between the suburbs and the city.

Two days later, I made the tedious journey to Bayswater.

Well, sir. we've had our best agent investigating your claim. for six tedious months.

Yes, yes, very tedious for you.

Be you so brief? - O, sir, 'tis better to be brief than tedious.

No, Uncle, but our crosses on the way. have made it tedious, wearisome and heavy.

Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights?

Having covered in tedious detail not only the history of the Sarah Siddons Society, but also the history of acting since Thespis first stepped out of the chorus line, our distinguished chairman has finally arrived at our reason for being here.

This is a tedious argument.

I fear this will be a tedious voyage for you.

Tedious you mean.

I find it tedious, almost unworthy of me.

It was a beautiful spring day, a tedious time of the year for bachelors.

If I may, Counselor, it could be quite tedious for us both to sit here and wait in silence.

See, i didn't want you to take all those tedious lessons and then find out at the end of it all that you really had no musical talent at all.

I would beguile the tedious day with sleep.

Except taxation by 6-month installments could get tedious. And it would cost you a fortune.

No more wastage in schools or tedious learning by rote.

My God, it's dull, it's so desperately dull and tedious and stuffy and boring and desperately dull.

Perhaps you're hideous and ill-dispositioned and tedious really, and I never knew.

It's very tedious being stuck up here all day long with a pole up your back. Oh, dear.

I am in blood stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.

Tedious, but an art.

Ah, tedious.

O, sir, 'tis better to be brief than tedious.

She's such a pretentious girl. Such tedious women!

Sure, it's just a long, tedious thank-you note.

O! It were a tedious difficulty, I think, to bring them to that prospect. Damn them if ever mortal eyes shall see them bolster more than their own.

Oh! And lovers' absent hours more tedious than the dial eight score times?

News and current affairs

I wish I could explain that it was tedious because we are now a normal democratic country, a place where politics is mundane, not a matter of life and death.

These increases make it possible for more people to shun dull, tedious, or onerous work in favor of stimulating, engaging, and mind-expanding work.

The chant became so tedious that inevitably, the class clown would ask if the incantation would end up turning us all into asthmatics, as Che was.

It is both demeaning and tedious to treat an arriving US president as a stars-and-stripes Santa Claus, to be presented with lengthy wish lists.

In response to recent events, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's second in command, released a tedious Powerpoint-like analysis of Egyptian constitutional law and political history.

Why focus on financial regulation when the risks of an immediate collapse are small, and when the details are so tedious?

The debate over the cartoons has been intense to the point that it is now tedious, ranging from freedom of expression to a clash of cultural values and even to a clash of civilizations.