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tedious 音標拼音: [t'idiəs] a. 沉悶的,冗長乏味的 沈悶的,冗長乏味的 tedious adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { boring}, { deadening}, { dull}, { ho- hum}, { irksome}, { slow}, { tedious}, { 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" [ synonym: { long- winded}, { tedious}, { verbose}, { windy}, { wordy}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] I see a man' s life is a tedious one. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] I would not be tedious to the court. -- Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See { Irksome}. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] 135 Moby Thesaurus words for " tedious": alliterating, alliterative, arid, assonant, automatic, banal, barren, belabored, betwixt and between, blah, blank, bloodless, boresome, boring, broken- record, bromidic, changeless, chanting, characterless, chiming, cliche- ridden, cold, colorless, dead, dingdong, dismal, drab, dragging, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, endless, etiolated, everlasting, exhausting, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fatiguing, flat, gray, harping, heavy, ho- hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid, invariable, jejune, jingle- jangle, jog- trot, labored, laborious, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, long- drawn- out, long- winded, low- spirited, mechanical, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate, modest, monotone, monotonous, mortal, namby- pamby, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, pale, pallid, passable, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, prolix, prolonged, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, respectable, rhymed, rhyming, routine, same, samely, singsong, slow, so- so, solemn, soporific, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tiresome, tiring, tolerable, treadmill, unchanging, unending, uneventful, unexciting, uninteresting, unlively, unrelieved, unvarying, vapid, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wishy- washy, wooden
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