tedious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: te=di=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

tedious, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See Tedium.].

 Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.  [1913 Webster]
"I see a man's life is a tedious one."  [1913 Webster]
"I would not be tedious to the court."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tedious, adj. tiresomely long; wearisome.

Derivative

tediously adv. tediousness n.

Etymology

ME f. OF tedieus or LL taediosus (as TEDIUM)

THESAURUS

tedious

alliterating, alliterative, arid, assonant, automatic, banal, barren, belabored, betwixt and between, blah, blank, bloodless, boresome, boring, broken-record, bromidic, changeless, chanting, characterless, chiming, cliche-ridden, cold, colorless, dead, dingdong, dismal, drab, dragging, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, endless, etiolated, everlasting, exhausting, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fatiguing, flat, gray, harping, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, jejune, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, laborious, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, long-drawn-out, long-winded, low-spirited, mechanical, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate, modest, monotone, monotonous, mortal, namby-pamby, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, pale, pallid, passable, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, prolix, prolonged, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, respectable, rhymed, rhyming, routine, same, samely, singsong, slow, so-so, solemn, soporific, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tiresome, tiring, tolerable, treadmill, unchanging, unending, uneventful, unexciting, uninteresting, unlively, unrelieved, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wishy-washy, wooden

ROGET THESAURUS

tedious

Weariness

N weariness, defatigation, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill, stiff, heavy hours, the enemy (time), wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of, wearily, usque ad nauseam, time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita.

Dullness

N dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity &c, stupidity want of originality, dearth of ideas, prose, matter of fact, heavy book, conte a dormir debout, platitude, dull, dull as ditch water, unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust, unfunny, unlively, logy, unimaginative, insulse, dry as dust, prosy, prosing, prosaic, matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless, weary stale flat and unprofitable, stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous, melancholic, stolid plodding, boring, tiresome, tedious, davus sum non Aedipus, deadly dull and boring, DDB.