tedious

• tædious (archaic)
• teedyus

Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.dɪəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈti.di.əs/, /ˈti.dʒəs/

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• Rhymes: -iːdiəs

tedious (comparative more tedious, superlative most tedious)

1. Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wearisome

   • 1785, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. […], London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson; […], page 343:

     John Gilpin's ſpouse ſaid to her dear, / Though wedded we have been / Theſe twice ten tedious years, yet we / No holiday have ſeen.

   • 1891, Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Style”, in T[homas] Bailey Saunders, transl., The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays [...] Selected and Translated with a Preface (Schopenhauer Series; 4), New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Co.; London: Swan Sonnenschien & Co., Lim., OCLC 472461599, pages 24–25 and 26:

     [pages 24–25] The very fact that these commonplace authors are never more than half-conscious when they write, would be enough to account for their dulness of mind and the tedious things they produce. […] [page 26] The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious subjectively, tedious, I mean, to this or that particular person; […]

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