Tedious Definition

tēdē-əs
adjective
Full of tedium; long or verbose and wearisome; tiresome; boring.
Webster's New World
Moving or progressing very slowly.
American Heritage

Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

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Origin of Tedious

  • Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Late Latin taediōsus from Latin taedium tedium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tedious Sentence Examples

  • It gets tedious, but I get a kick out of doing it that way.

  • The production of this is always a tedious task.

  • This method is very tedious in detail.

  • Exact analysis is difficult and tedious, and consequently the laboratory methods are not employed in technology, where time is an important factor and moderate accuracy is all that is necessary.

  • This process is a tedious one, and necessarily only gives the average form of thousands of different alternations.

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Words Starting With

TTETED

Words Ending With

SUSOUS

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tedious

Words Starting With T and Ending With S

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With T7 Letter Words Ending With S
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