'Tedious' definitions:
Definition of 'tedious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
adjective
Definition of 'Tedious'
From: GCIDE
- Tedious \Te"di*ous\, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See Tedium.] Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- {Te"di*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Te"di*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- I see a man's life is a tedious one. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I would not be tedious to the court. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tedious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- arid,
- assonant,
- automatic,
- banal,
- barren,
- belabored,
- betwixt and between,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boresome,
- boring,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- changeless,
- chanting,
- characterless,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- dingdong,
- dismal,
- drab,
- dragging,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drudging,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- endless,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- exhausting,
- fade,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fatiguing,
- flat,
- gray,
- harping,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- jejune,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mechanical,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- moderate,
- modest,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- mortal,
- namby-pamby,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- pale,
- pallid,
- passable,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prolix,
- prolonged,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- respectable,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- routine,
- same,
- samely,
- singsong,
- slow,
- so-so,
- solemn,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- tolerable,
- treadmill,
- unchanging,
- unending,
- uneventful,
- unexciting,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unrelieved,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wishy-washy,
- wooden