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tedious
[ tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs ]
adjective
- marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome:
tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
Synonyms: , , ,
- wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker, a writer, or the work they produce; prolix.
tedious
/ ˈپːɪə /
adjective
- causing fatigue or tedium; monotonous
- obsolete.progressing very slowly
Derived Forms
- ˈٱ徱dzܲԱ, noun
- ˈٱ徱dzܲ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- ٱd·dzܲ· adverb
- ٱd·dzܲ·Ա noun
- v·ٱd·dzܲ adjective
- over·ٱd·dzܲ· adverb
- over·ٱd·dzܲ·Ա noun
- ܲ·ٱd·dzܲ adjective
- un·ٱd·dzܲ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
I can get the reasoning to build out his role, but the gags are clunky from the get-go, including a tedious stretch in which Braxton whines about his urgent desire to adopt a corgi.
“Mostly women sit there at sewing machines all day doing very, very tedious work. ... If this is what he thinks these tariffs will do, it’s not going to work that way.”
“Warfare” is strictly the facts, and those alone are terrible, brave, intense, random, tedious and captivating.
Larian said the industry has imported dolls for 100 years and making them is “very tedious work that is labor intensive” and simply not done domestically.
I wondered if maybe you wanted to weigh in on a somewhat tedious debate over the term “fascism.”
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