tedious
[tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs]
- marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker, a writer, or the work they produce; prolix.
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Origin of tedious
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
In one particularly telling scene, Jobs walks into a bay where his employees are tediously working away.
A Walmart has 140,000 SKUs, which have to be tediously sorted, replaced on shelves, reordered, delivered, and so forth.
To make the images print-ready, H.A. tediously redrew his watercolor images as color separations, layer by layer.
Historical Examples
I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
Toward this, in an advance 178 tediously slow, the veteran made his way.
Heart of the Blue RidgeWaldron Baily
Tediously an hour passed and there was no sign of Joe Hawkridge.
Blackbeard: BuccaneerRalph D. Paine
Then to church again, and heard a simple Scot preach most tediously.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, CompleteSamuel Pepys
The top round of the high ladder which he had climbed so tediously was within his grasp.
Grit A-PlentyDillon Wallace
tedious
- causing fatigue or tedium; monotonous
- obsolete progressing very slowly
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Word Origin and History for tediously
tedious
adj.
early 15c., from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediosus "wearisome, irksome, tedious," from Latin taedium (see tedium).
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