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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tedious
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
rather
▪ Some people are natural bargainers and others find the whole process rather tedious.
▪ In order to use them, however, they require a rather tedious peeling process.
▪ She was just going to be rather tedious from now on.
▪ One reaction to this style is that it is merely game-playing, and rather tedious at that.
▪ This makes the essential continual small power changes rather tedious.
▪ It's really becoming rather tedious.
very
▪ Life is going to be very tedious this year, I can see.
▪ Although this may seem a very tedious way to go about things, it is the only sure method of success.
▪ They are then very tedious to clean.
▪ It also became a very tedious place, since you can scarcely blow your nose there without going through a security check.
▪ It makes shopping very tedious and I find myself for ever returning clothes.
▪ The snag about recording is that an enormous amount of material is produced which is very tedious to analyse.
▪ Don't be afraid to use cut and sew for necklines, as these are very tedious to shape on the machine.
▪ This is all becoming very tedious.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a tedious lecture
▪ Doing all those calculations without a computer would be extremely tedious.
▪ It was one of the most tedious plays I've ever had to sit through.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bullens Creek had started off tiny and tedious and gone downhill from there.
▪ But because this group of people is isolated, the routines may assume a particularly tedious, inexorable character.
▪ But he had come to find her tedious.
▪ In order to use them, however, they require a rather tedious peeling process.
▪ In truth, she found watching the endless circuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to.
▪ It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes.
▪ The very rigid structure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans, but we are not meant to be reading it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tedious

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.

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tedious

early 15c., from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediosus "wearisome, irksome, tedious," from Latin taedium (see tedium). Related: Tediously; tediousness.

Wiktionary
tedious

a. boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

WordNet
tedious

  1. 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" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome]

  2. 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" [syn: long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy]

Usage examples of "tedious".

With their muskets and rigid drill they were forced to come aboard through the gangway, a tedious and time-consuming manoeuvre accompanied by loud cursing from the impatient sailors.

I have expiated with pleasure on the first steps of the crusaders, as they paint the manners and character of Europe: but I shall abridge the tedious and uniform narrative of their blind achievements, which were performed by strength and are described by ignorance.

Land area was scant, isolated volcanic tips thrust above the endlessly rolling seas, but the location of the planet saved long and tedious blinks from that sector of space back into Empire central.

I gave her ten crowns, saying that as I could not see her I could not promise a second visit, and then I went away with Menicuccio, who was angry with himself for having procured me such a tedious hour.

Then I being left alone to the high cogitations of loue, hauing passed ouer a long and tedious night without sleepe, through my barren fortune, and aduerse constellation, altogether vncomforted and sorrowfull, by means of my vntimely and not prosperous loue, weeping, I recounted from point to point, what a thing vnequall loue is: and how fitly one may loue that dooth not loue: and what defence there may bee made against the vnaccustomed, yet dayly assaults of loue: for a naked soule altogether vnarmed, the seditious strife, especially being intestine: a fresh still setting vpon with vnstable and new thoughts.

This visit proved a very tedious one, for I had to listen to a long story which did not interest me in the least.

His historical novels, pale imitations of the works of Dumas and Hugo, were tedious, dry, melodramatic.

SHADE OF EARTH What boots it, Sire, To down this dynasty, set that one up, Goad panting peoples to the throes thereof, Make wither here my fruit, maintain it there, And hold me travailling through fineless years In vain and objectless monotony, When all such tedious conjuring could be shunned By uncreation?

Stephen noticed that they had prepared another sail for fothering the ship, and that they were going through the same laborious motions of passing it under her bottom, a long, tedious operation with innumerable orders roaring over the grind of the pumps.

If everything went according to plan, Mac would have taken the ship by the time Gyton pulled alongside and the LCs would begin the tedious braking process.

I had spent a very tedious month in that city, the ancient queen of the world, when Cardinal Albani gave my friend dispatches for Naples.

At last, after one of the most tedious days I have ever spent, I returned home and went to bed, laughing at the experience I had undergone.

We were four in all, and my companions only spoke German and Polish, so that I had a dreadfully tedious journey.

I accordingly acted as cicerone, for which part I and my lord, too, were much better qualified than the tedious and ignorant fellows who had an official right to that title.

Unsure of his authority and uncomfortable in the mess, he is failing, and his failure seems assured When he is relegated to a tedious jop in the baggage train.