tedious

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; - Edmund Burke; ; - Mark Twain
adjective using or containing too many words

English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).

The ceremonies were not tedious. — Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain
Why go into these tedious details? — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yes: it was certainly a tedious party. — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome

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