Tedious \Te"di*ous\, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See
Tedium.]
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,
slowness, or the like; wearisome. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "tedious":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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