full of tedium; long or verbose and wearisome; tiresome; boring
Origin of tedious
Middle English from Late Latin taediosus
adjective
The definition of tedious is something that is boring and repetitive.
An example of tedious is the work that someone does on an assembly line.
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tedious
adjective
- Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring. See Synonyms at boring.
- Obsolete Moving or progressing very slowly.
Origin of tedious
Middle English from Late Latin taediōsus from Latin taedium tediumRelated Forms:
- te′di·ous·ly
adverb
- te′di·ous·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more tedious, superlative most tedious)
- Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
Origin
Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediÅsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium").
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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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