Tedious

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtiː.dɪəs/
• US IPA: /ˈti.di.É™s/, /ˈti.dÊ’É™s/
• Rhymes: -iːdiÉ™s

Alternative forms

• tædious archaic

Origin

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

Full definition of tedious

Adjective

1. Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
• , Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature Chapter 2, A work is objectively tedious when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not tedious.
• , Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature Chapter 2, 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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• tediously
• tediousness

Related terms

• tedium

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