What does Tedious mean?
Definitions for Tedious
ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəste·dious
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Princeton's WordNet
boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective
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"
long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordyadjective
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"
Wiktionary
tediousadjective
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
Etymology: tedieus, from taediosus, from taedium.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tediousadjective
Etymology: tedieux, Fr. tœdium, Latin.
That I be not further tedious unto thee, hear us of thy clemency a few words. Acts xxiv. 4.
The one intense, the other still remiss,
Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove
Tedious alike. John Milton.Pity only on fresh objects stays,
But with the tedious sight of woes decays. Dryden.They unto whom we shall seem tedious are in nowise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure. Richard Hooker, b. i.
Chief mastery to dissect
With long and tedious havock fabled knights. John Milton.
Wikipedia
tedious
In conventional usage, boredom, ennui, or tedium is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement, is not interested in their surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension. "There is no universally accepted definition of boredom. But whatever it is, researchers argue, it is not simply another name for depression or apathy. It seems to be a specific mental state that people find unpleasant—a lack of stimulation that leaves them craving relief, with a host of behavioral, medical and social consequences." According to BBC News, boredom "...can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your health"; yet research "...suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn't achieve our creative feats."In Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity, Elizabeth Goodstein traces the modern discourse on boredom through literary, philosophical, and sociological texts to find that as "a discursively articulated phenomenon...boredom is at once objective and subjective, emotion and intellectualization—not just a response to the modern world, but also a historically constituted strategy for coping with its discontents." In both conceptions, boredom has to do fundamentally with an experience of time—such as experiencing the slowness of time—and problems of meaning.
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tedious
Tedious refers to something that is boring, monotonous, and tiresome, often due to being prolonged, repetitive or lacking in variety and interest. It is a task or activity that one perceives as long and slow.
Webster Dictionary
Tediousadjective
involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Tedious
tē′di-us, adj. wearisome: tiresome from length or slowness: irksome: slow.—n. Tedios′ity, tediousness.—adv. Tē′diously.—n. Tē′diousness. [L. tædiosus.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Tedious in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Tedious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Tedious in a Sentence
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
These are skilled, tedious jobs that United Auto Workers members take pride in every day, strikes are never easy on United Auto Workers or United Auto Workers families but John Deere workers believe John Deere workers deserve a better share of the pie, a safer workplace and adequate benefits.
Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious.
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
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- tediósCatalan, Valencian
- kedelig, trættende, trivielDanish
- mühsam, weitschweifig, ermüdend, lästig, langwierig, langweilig, nervtötendGerman
- tedaEsperanto
- tedioso, prolijoSpanish
- خسته کنندهPersian
- tylsä, pitkäveteinen, ikävä, hengetönFinnish
- laborieux, fastidieuxFrench
- leadránach, liostaIrish
- liostaScottish Gaelic
- unalmas, fárasztóHungarian
- հոգնեցուցիչ, տաղտկալի, ձանձրալիArmenian
- noioso, tedioso, palloso, fastidioso, soporiferoItalian
- monotoon, langdradig, saaiDutch
- traurig, kjedelig, ensformigNorwegian
- nużący, nudny, żmudnyPolish
- entediante, enfadonho, monótonoPortuguese
- утоми́тельный, ску́чный, ну́дныйRussian
- långtråkig, enformig, tjatigSwedish
- கடினமானTamil
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