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English Dictionary: tedious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tedious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tedious adj so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" Synonym(s): boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" Synonym(s): long- winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tedious \Te"dious\, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See {Tedium}.] Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- {Te"diously}, adv. -- {Te"diousness}, n. I see a man's life is a tedious* one. --Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. --Bunyan. Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See {Irksome}.