tedium

Preposition: of

• journey: Applications which make work a bit easier, or relieve the potential tedium of a long journey.
• life: None of us goes to an academic conference to escape the tedium of campus life.
• work: This, combined with the tedium of the work, tends to encourage a high turnover of staff.
• existence: She became weary of living and was bored by the tedium of existence.
• immortality: She gets up and accompanies a cow to her destination: mortal tedium of immortality.
• task: But much of the tedium of the task of compiling an index can be automated in this fashion.

Converse of object

• relieve: To relieve the tedium they messed about with a tennis ball.
• alleviate: Each has a well-equipped kitchen to alleviate the tedium of eating out every day.
• avoid: But you can avoid this tedium; click here for an example.
• endure: He endures the tedium of having to address his youthfully candid reaction to the Old Course with polite resignation.
• reduce: Text To Picts This application was written to reduce the tedium of making picture files of text for experiment generator packages.
• take: A Darts Scorer takes the tedium out of keeping score when playing real darts.

Adjective modifier

• sheer: Next day saw the sheer tedium of dragging around looking for accommodation.
• mind-numbing: In fact, I would say the acting saved Superman Returns from mind-numbing tedium.
• endless: Find that job... Fed up with the endless tedium of your job?
• unrelenting: If you weren't up for it was a nightmare, unrelenting tedium, a show in which nothing happens.
• day-to-day: He has intwined apects of traffic, boating and the day-to-day tedium of office work in a new way.
• usual: For the opening half-hour, it's a definite cinematic thrill, avoiding the usual tedium that comes from setting the historical scene.

Noun used with modifier

• ad: So on ad tedium form of a continually lets slip.