tedious
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.
Origin of tedious
1Other words for tedious
Other words from tedious
- te·di·ous·ly, adverb
- te·di·ous·ness, noun
- o·ver·te·di·ous, adjective
- o·ver·te·di·ous·ly, adverb
- o·ver·te·di·ous·ness, noun
- un·te·di·ous, adjective
- un·te·di·ous·ly, adverb
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How to use tedious in a sentence
Reading straight through a 1000-word article, no matter how well-written, can become tedious quickly.
How visual content can give a boost to your SEO and how to take advantage | Anthony Gaenzle | November 10, 2020 | Search Engine WatchWhile Google asserts that its competition is “just a click away,” Weinberg argues a user would have to take four to five tedious steps to make DuckDuckGo the default search engine.
Domino effect: Google antitrust case could spell trouble for other tech giants | Brett Haensel | October 29, 2020 | FortuneSo that’s another function that is now being automated by AI because it’s another piece of work that’s really a lot of tedious, detailed work.
With trust in AI, manufacturers can build better | Jason Sparapani | October 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewSite inspections are slow and tedious, says Sophie Morris at Buildots, a civil engineer who used to work in construction before joining the company.
AI that scans a construction site can spot when things are falling behind | Will Heaven | October 16, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewSo, speaking of robots, there’s always this discussion about automation in the work that robots can do instead of people, specifically those “tedious tasks,” that allow humans to do more creative work.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has begun: Now’s the time to join | Jason Sparapani | October 15, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
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.
I remember myself—as a sort of anti-climax to that—rather tediously asking my way home.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsThe next three days passed slowly and tediously for most of the guests assembled at Grey Abbey.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys | Anthony TrollopeThe first were egotistic, the second wholly unjudicial, the third laboriously and tediously reminiscent.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. | Charles L. GravesA frail old woman, moving tediously, ushered him into the hall, shading her weak eyes while she awaited his errand.
Max Fargus | Owen JohnsonThe list of magical superstitions that have retained a hold among us would be found tediously long.
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion | James H. Leuba
British Dictionary definitions for tedious
/ (ˈtiːdɪəs) /
causing fatigue or tedium; monotonous
obsolete progressing very slowly
Derived forms of tedious
- tediously, adverb
- tediousness, noun
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