Tedious

Definition: Tedious

Tedious

Adjective

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".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tedious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Tedious \Te"di*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression taediosus, from taedium. See Tedium.]. (references)

Synonyms: Tedious

Dullness

Boring, tiresome, tedious.

Inaction

Cool one's heels, kick one's heels; while away the time, while away tedious hours; pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time; talk against time; let the grass grow under one's feet; waste time; (inactive).

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Tedious

You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Journeys alone are always so tedious, don't you find (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

I see your remaining days each as a quiet, tedious collection of hours (Seven Faces of Dr. Lao; writing credit: Charles G. Finney; Charles Beaumont)

In short, she is unprincipled, relentless, and exacting; idle, unproductive, and tedious; unimaginative, humorless, and vain; vindictive, undignified, and weak (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Biró)

It's quite tedious to have one's words of wisdom quoted back to one. (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne; writing credit: Javier Olivares; Pablo Olivares)

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Music

• Tedious Way to Natasha [IMPORT] (reference)

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Doubtful : can the tedious old turtle be induced to move?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Even when it succeeds, it may prove a very tedious process

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights

It would be tedious to repeat his arguments, and my contradictions

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Economic History

Russia

Determining tax obligations is a tedious task. (references)

Costa Rica

However, the process of bidding on public tenders is usually a tedious process, best accomplished through the employment of a qualified Costa Rican representative. (references)

Honduras

In any case, the process of bidding on public tenders is usually a tedious process, best accomplished through the employment of a qualified Honduran representative. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

Customs clearance is a tedious and capricious bureaucratic process. (references)

Syria

Customs procedures are cumbersome, tedious, and time-consuming because of complex regulations. (references)

Travel

Botswana

Road Safety and Transportation: Although major roads are generally in good condition, the combination of long, tedious stretches of two-lane highways, high speed limits, and the occasional presence of large animals on the roads make fatal accidents a frequent occurrence. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

The largest ILO project focuses on children working in hazardous occupations, ranging from exposure to chemicals and other harmful substances to long tedious working hours. (references)

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Expression using "tedious": be tedious. Additional references.

Albanian

i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tiresome, weariful, wearisome, weary), i lodhshëm (arduous, dull, irksome, laborious, long winded, pernickety, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, trying, wearing, wearisome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, slow, stodgy, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, slow, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), еднообразен (dead, flat, hack, humdrum, jogtrot, monotone, monotonous, tame, unenlivened, unleavened, unvaried), проточен (lengthy, long-drawn, protracted), дълъг (linear, long, long-spun, prolonged, protracted, straggling), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Chinese 

繁琐, 乏味 . (various references)

Czech

zdlouhavý (circuitous, endways, lengthy, long, tardy), nudný (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, jejune, prosy, slow, stuffy, tiresome), únavný (mindless, tiresome, trying, wearing, wearisome). (various references)

Farsi 

ملالت اور, ناراضی (Malcontent, Peevish), کسل کننده (Drab, Drowsy, Irksome, Prosaic), کج خلق (Crab, Irritable, Morose, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Snappish, Sullen, Techy, Testy), خسته کننده (Bore, Insipid, Monotonous, Prolix, Tiresome, Wearisome). (various references)

Finnish

pitkäveteinen (lengthy, long-winded), ikävä (boredom, dull, longing, regret, tedium, tiresome, unfortunate, uninteresting, unpleasant). (various references)

French

lassant, fastidieux, ennuyeux, assommant. (various references)

German

langweilig (boring, dead, dreary, dry, insipidly, lackluster, lacklustre, lifeless, pedestrian, prosy, slow, stuffily, stuffy, tediously, unamusing). (various references)

Greek 

πληκτικός (dull), πλητικός, ανιαρόσ (borer, boring, drab, dull, irksome, prosaic, prosaical, prosy, stodgy, uninteresting, wearisome, weary), ανιαρός (vapid). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא�" (fatiguing, irksome, tiresome, wearisome), משעמם (boring, drab, dry, dull, humdrum, logy, monotonous, mundane, tiresome, uneventful), מעיף (fatiguing, tiresome, toilsome, trying), ח�" �'ו� י (drab, humdrum, monochromatic, monotonous, singsong, unvaried). (various references)

Hungarian

unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dry, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, languid, muzzy, pokey, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, tiresome, tiring, witless). (various references)

Indonesian

membosankan (arid, bore, boring, drab, monotonous), bawel (carping). (various references)

Italian

tedioso (boring, irksome, wearisome), noioso (annoying, boring, dull, humdrum, onerous, pesky, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tiresome, troublesome, workaday, worrisome). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冗長 (verbose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ながながしい, う�"ざり (being fed up with, boring), ゆうちょう (deliberate, easygoing, leisurely, mountain bird, slow), じょうちょう (a senior, an elder, atmosphere, mood, one's superior, redundancy, sentiment, verbose). (various references)

Korean 

지루한. (various references)

Manx

dree (boring, drab, dreary, dull, humdrum, painful). (various references)

Pig Latin

edioustay.(various references)

Portuguese

tedioso (boring, drab, dull, lengthy, ponderous, prolix, tiresome, weariful, wearisome), fastidioso (annoying, boring, disgustful, drab, dull, fastidious, irksome, monotonous, picksome, stodgy, tiresome, wearisome), enfadonho (arid, barren, boring, bothersome, difficult, disagreeable, drab, dull, fastidious, humdrum, insipid, lengthy, monotone, monotonous, muzzy, pesky, preachy, prolix, prosy, repetitious, soporific, stodgy, tiresome, untoward, vapid, vexing, wearisome, weary), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian

supãrãtor (annoying, bad, bothersome, disappointing, dreadful, grating, hurtful, importunate, inconvenient, inopportune, intrusively, invidious, irksome, irritating, irritatingly, jumpy, mischief-makering, niggling, obtrusively, painful, provoking, provokingly, troublesome, unfortunate, unlucky, unwelcome, vexatious, vexing), searbãd (flat, insipid, musty, tasteless, vapid), plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary), plicticos (boring, bothersome, dryasdust, dull, humdrum, lifeless, musty, ponderous, stodgy, toilsome, vapid, wearisome), obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, strenuous, sweaty, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome, weary), jenant (annoying, awkward, delicate, embarrassing, painful, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpleasant), incomod (awkward, clumsy, comfortless, incommodious, inconvenient, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy), anost (dull, flat, flavorless, flavourless, ineffectual, vapid). (various references)

Russian 

скучный (boring, drab, dry, dull, dull beggar, flat, heartbreaking, inanimate, insipid, irksome, jejune, languid, long, long winded, longspun, monotone, ponderous, prolix, trying, uninspiring, uninteresting, weariful, yawnful). (various references)

Scottish

t� san (tedious discourse or scolding), t� bhastal (tedious nonsense). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

monoton (flat, monotonous, unvaried), dosadan (acerbate, annoying, boring, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, poky, repetitious, slow, stodgy, stuffy, teasing, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious). (various references)

Spanish

tedioso (disgusting, humdrum). (various references)

Swedish

tråkig (boring, disagreable, drab, dull, dusty, humdrum, irksome, jejune, pedestrian, prosy, tiresome, uninteresting, unpleasant, vapid), ledsam (sad, tiresome, upsetting). (various references)

Thai

น่าเบื่อหน่าย (tiresome). (various references)

Turkish

sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), can sıkıcı (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, chippy, disagreeable, displeasing, embarrassing, painful, provoking, soul-destroying, soulless, sullen, unexeciting, vexatious, worrisome, worrying), bıktırıcı (disgusting, fulsome, irksome, prosy, sickening, stodgy, tiresome, troublesome, wearing, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Ukrainian

стомливий (exhausting, fatiguing, irksome, laborious, languorous, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tucked up, weariful, wearing, weary), нудний (arid, barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, weariful, wearying, workaday), непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu hấp dẫn, tẻ, nhạt nhẽo (cold, cool, coolish, coolly, flavourless, gelid, savourless, unsavoury, vapid), l� m bu�"n tẻ, chán ngắt (dull, dullness, dully, dulness, long-winded, mouldy, pedestrian, prosaic, wearied, weary). (various references)

Welsh

maith (long). (various references)

multa, multae, multaeque, multam, multamque, multaque, multarum, multas, multi, multique, multis, multo, multoque, multorum, multos, multum, multumque, multus, multusque, plurima, plurimae, plurimam, plurimarum, plurimas, plurimi, plurimis, plurimo, plurimorum, plurimos, plurimum, plurimus. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tedious": tediously, tediousness, tediousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tedious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dedimus, edious, Medeousa, tadious, tedeous, tedgous, tediuos, tedius, teidious, Telios, teterous, Theodilus, tidious, tiedious. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outside.

-1 letter: duties, ousted, studio, suited, todies, toused.

-2 letters: deist, diets, dites, doest, doits, dotes, douse, duets, duits, edits, eidos, etuis, odist, outed, sited, stied, suite, tides, touse.

-3 letters: dies, diet, dite, dits, does, doit, dose, dost, dote, dots, dues, duet, duit, duos, dust, edit, etui, ides, odes, ouds, oust, outs, side, site, stud, sued.

+1 letter: hideouts, outrides, outsider, outsides, outsized, solitude, toluides, wideouts.

+2 letters: autopsied, cloudiest, courtside, custodies, diestrous, dipterous, dissolute, doughiest, eductions, guidepost, loudliest, misquoted, misrouted, mouldiest, nonsuited, outchides, outdesign, outdrives, outfields, outfished, outguides, outkissed, outraised, outriders, outsailed, outshined, outsiders, outsinned, outsmiled, outstride, outwished, outyields, seditious, seduction, solitudes, subeditor, suctioned, tediously, tendinous.

+3 letters: audiotapes, auditories, authorised, courtesied, courtsides, customised, customized, deductions, deltoideus, despiteous, discounted, discounter, dismounted, dispiteous, doughtiest, drouthiest, educations, eruditions, eutectoids, exudations, fortitudes, guideposts, introduces, longitudes, miscounted, misdoubted, mistouched, mistutored, outdesigns, outslicked, outstrides, outstudied, outstudies, questioned, quodlibets, rediscount, reductions, seductions, solicitude, subeditors, sudatories, tendrilous, toluidines, udometries, undomestic, ungodliest.