Dictionary Definition
tedious adj
1 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" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome]
2 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" [syn:
long-winded,
verbose, windy, wordy]
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English
Pronunciation
- /ˈtiːdiəs/, /"ti:di@s/
- Rhymes: -iːdiəs
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Translations
- Dutch: saai, langdradig, monotoon
- Finnish: pitkäveteinen, ikävä, tylsä, hengetön
- French: fastidieux , fastidieuse
- German: ermüdend, langweilig, langwierig, lästig, mühsam, nervtötend, weitschweifig (tedious labor/labour: Wehenschwäche)
- Italian: noioso, tedioso, fastidioso
- Polish: nużący
- Russian: нудный, скучный, утомительный
- Swedish: långtråkig, tjatig, enformig
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alliterating, alliterative, arid, assonant, automatic, banal, barren, belabored, betwixt and
between, blah, blank, bloodless, boresome, boring, broken-record, bromidic, changeless, chanting, characterless, chiming, cliche-ridden, cold, colorless, dead, dingdong, dismal, drab, dragging, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, endless, etiolated, everlasting, exhausting, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fatiguing, flat, gray, harping, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, jejune, jingle-jangle, jog-trot,
labored, laborious, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, long-drawn-out,
long-winded, low-spirited, mechanical, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate, modest, monotone, monotonous, mortal, namby-pamby, of a kind,
of a sort, of sorts, pale,
pallid, passable, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, prolix, prolonged, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, respectable, rhymed, rhyming, routine, same, samely, singsong, slow, so-so, solemn, soporific, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tiresome, tiring, tolerable, treadmill, unchanging, unending, uneventful, unexciting, uninteresting, unlively, unrelieved, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wishy-washy, wooden