tedious

[ tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs ]

/ ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəs /

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adjective

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.

Nearby words

tedder, teddy, teddy bear, teddy boy, teddy girl, tedious, tediously, tedium, tee, tee off, tee shirt

Origin of tedious

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin tēdiōsus, Late Latin taediōsus. See tedium, -ous

SYNONYMS FOR tedious

1 wearing, boring, tiring, monotonous, dull.

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Related forms

te·di·ous·ly, adverbte·di·ous·ness, nouno·ver·te·di·ous, adjectiveo·ver·te·di·ous·ly, adverb

o·ver·te·di·ous·ness, nounun·te·di·ous, adjectiveun·te·di·ous·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for tediously

In one particularly telling scene, Jobs walks into a bay where his employees are tediously working away.
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A Walmart has 140,000 SKUs, which have to be tediously sorted, replaced on shelves, reordered, delivered, and so forth.
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To make the images print-ready, H.A. tediously redrew his watercolor images as color separations, layer by layer.
Curious George Escapes the Nazis|Jaimie Etkin|March 25, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The remainder of the winter passed slowly and tediously enough.
Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States|Raphael Semmes

Without entering too tediously into the exact steps by which salt glazing is performed, it may be roughly described as follows.
Chats on Old Earthenware|Arthur Hayden
Cider was tediously made at first by pounding the apples in wooden mortars; the pomace was afterward pressed in baskets.
Stage-coach and Tavern Days|Alice Morse Earle
We seemed to be going at a tediously slow pace, yet the two thin streams of water rushed hissing from prow to stern.
The River and I|John G. Neihardt
How tediously wore that dreary night away in the sickroom, where the insensible child was watched by his mother and her friend!
The Rector of St. Mark's|Mary J. Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for tediously

tedious

/ (ˈtiːdɪəs) /

adjective

causing fatigue or tedium; monotonous

obsolete progressing very slowly

Derived Forms

tediously, adverbtediousness, noun

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