tedious
tedious
Definition
te·di·ous (tē′dē əs; occas. tē′jəs)
adjective
full of tedium; long or verbose and wearisome; tiresome; boring
Etymology: ME < LL taediosus
tedious
Synonyms
tedious
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- find: A confession is in order here: I did find the last few score pages rather tedious.
Modifies a noun
- dimwit: Of course, Nikki will be voted back in, but she was voted out fair and square because she is a tedious dimwit!
- repetition: However, I do not want to burden the Committee with a tedious repetition of the general points that arise under both amendments.
- waiting: I will also discuss timescales and the contrast between initial frantic flat searching with tedious waiting for completion.
- task: Filling in all the forms is Pete's current tedious task.
- journey: A long detour around the Birdwood Road estate can make for a very tedious journey.
- calculation: Using Maple has particular advantages: There is no longer a need to do tedious calculations by hand.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: He referred him to the rather tedious answers we tended to give in these situations.
- somewhat: This somewhat tedious process guards against the accidental deletion of large numbers of records.
- incredibly: But this transformation becomes incredibly tedious as the same cut scene is repeated every time.
- extremely: Of course, the question of authenticity is an extremely tedious one.
- pretty: In all honesty, the killings are actually pretty tedious!
- slightly: Washing Dishes by Hand Washing dishes by hand is not really a very complex task, just slightly tedious.
Preposition: after
- while: They are extremely talented musically, but their songs are somewhat dodgy and get tedious after a while.
Infinitive complement
- read: These chapters, stuffed full of tables and statistical results, are a bit tedious to read, and perhaps could have been shortened.
- write: In the preceding example you might feel that it's tedious to write out all of those instanceof expressions, and you're right.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: Perhaps the main revelation was how, with the benefit of hindsight, the whole Doherty saga seems so damn tedious.
- become: Low budget nonsense that becomes too tedious to even be unintentionally funny.
- get: Maybe just a proof of concept, that'd be the most fun, running all the way gets tedious.
Preposition: in
- extreme: However, such an approach would have been tedious in the extreme to read.
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