Tedious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring. See Synonyms at boring.
  • adj. Obsolete Moving or progressing very slowly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wearisome; irksome; tiresome.
  • Annoying; disagreeable; offensive; uncongenial.
  • Slow; slow-going: as, a tedious course.
  • Synonyms Tiresome, Irksome, etc. See wearisome.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  • adj. using or containing too many words
  • Equivalent
    uninteresting    prolix   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irksome    fatiguing    wearisome    dull    tiresome   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tiresome    painful    dreary    lengthy    laborious    bore    dull    monotonous    useless    fruitless