Tedious
adjective
Something that is boring and takes a lot of time.
The data entry job was tedious and monotonous.
Often appears as...
- tedious task
- tedious job
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Disapproving
adjective
Something that is complicated with unnecessary details.
The report was tedious with too many irrelevant details.
Often appears as...
- tedious report
- tedious lecture
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Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Something that takes a long time and patience.
Planting seeds is a tedious but necessary task.
Often appears as...
- tedious work
- tedious journey
adjective
Something that is boring and takes a lot of time.
The data entry job was tedious and monotonous.
Often appears as...
- tedious task
- tedious job
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Something that is complicated with unnecessary details.
The report was tedious with too many irrelevant details.
Often appears as...
- tedious report
- tedious lecture
Usage tips
Disapproving
Academic
adjective
Something that takes a long time and patience.
Planting seeds is a tedious but necessary task.
Often appears as...
- tedious work
- tedious journey
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling of Boredom
Use to describe tasks that are so uninteresting they make you feel weary and impatient.
Copying numbers into a spreadsheet all day is tedious.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Tedious' often implies a negative feeling towards the task or activity.
He found the lecture tedious and couldn't wait for it to end.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Inherently Negative
Sometimes 'tedious' just states the nature of a task without judging its importance.
Proofreading is tedious, but crucial for a flawless essay.
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling of Boredom
Use to describe tasks that are so uninteresting they make you feel weary and impatient.
Copying numbers into a spreadsheet all day is tedious.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Tedious' often implies a negative feeling towards the task or activity.
He found the lecture tedious and couldn't wait for it to end.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Inherently Negative
Sometimes 'tedious' just states the nature of a task without judging its importance.
Proofreading is tedious, but crucial for a flawless essay.
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling of Boredom
Use to describe tasks that are so uninteresting they make you feel weary and impatient.
Copying numbers into a spreadsheet all day is tedious.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Tedious' often implies a negative feeling towards the task or activity.
He found the lecture tedious and couldn't wait for it to end.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Inherently Negative
Sometimes 'tedious' just states the nature of a task without judging its importance.
Proofreading is tedious, but crucial for a flawless essay.
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The mad scientist of...
and I make all of these by hand, and it's really tedious. It takes a long, long time to make these scores, and right now I'm working on a piece that's 180 pages in length, and it's just a big chunk of my life, and I'm just pulling out hair. I have a lot of it, and that's a good thing I suppose. So this gets really boring and really tiresome for me,
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10 steps to boost your...
That will save you time and boost your happiness. Number last but certainly not least, schedule another financial health day for a few weeks later. Chances are, you'll need to revisit some of the things you started today. I know all of this may seem tedious or boring, but it's better to make these vital changes
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
The idea is it allows the surgeon to operate comfortably in his own coordinate frame. Many of the subtasks in surgery are very routine and tedious, like suturing, and currently, all of these are performed under the specific and immediate control of the surgeon.
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Life lessons from an ad...
But, actually, the point of placebo education is interesting. How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality?
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Origami robots that...
as well as digging into the surface. It's not just exploration. For astronauts, they need additional help, because you cannot afford to bring interns up there, either. They have to do every tedious task. They may be simple,
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Portable Underwater...
helps scientists work at these depths humans have to end your long decompression delays as they surface for their bodies to adjust to the changing water pressures might habitat eases these tedious wait times by allowing
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How inventions change...
Separating the seeds from the cotton lint was tedious and time consuming. Working by hand, a slave could clean about a pound of cotton a day. But the Industrial Revolution was underway, and the demand was increasing.
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Helping African farmers...
deeply about sigh saw was the way our people in the rural areas were using were producing processing sisal they use the most crude methods and this is so tedious and one who do work the whole
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There’s Still Oil on...
hello there hi it's tedious work but if he can collect salmon scales from a fresh kill Craig can match the fish to a known spawning site this helps them build a
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The Celebrity Panda PIPE...
a tedious obsession with my personal business you know matters of the fur boudoir rhubarb i've said too much it's a private matter
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The mad scientist of...
and I make all of these by hand, and it's really tedious. It takes a long, long time to make these scores, and right now I'm working on a piece that's 180 pages in length, and it's just a big chunk of my life, and I'm just pulling out hair. I have a lot of it, and that's a good thing I suppose. So this gets really boring and really tiresome for me,
Video examples
10 steps to boost your...
That will save you time and boost your happiness. Number last but certainly not least, schedule another financial health day for a few weeks later. Chances are, you'll need to revisit some of the things you started today. I know all of this may seem tedious or boring, but it's better to make these vital changes
Video examples
Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
The idea is it allows the surgeon to operate comfortably in his own coordinate frame. Many of the subtasks in surgery are very routine and tedious, like suturing, and currently, all of these are performed under the specific and immediate control of the surgeon.
Video examples
Life lessons from an ad...
But, actually, the point of placebo education is interesting. How many problems of life can be solved actually by tinkering with perception, rather than that tedious, hardworking and messy business of actually trying to change reality?
Video examples
Origami robots that...
as well as digging into the surface. It's not just exploration. For astronauts, they need additional help, because you cannot afford to bring interns up there, either. They have to do every tedious task. They may be simple,
Video examples
Portable Underwater...
helps scientists work at these depths humans have to end your long decompression delays as they surface for their bodies to adjust to the changing water pressures might habitat eases these tedious wait times by allowing
Video examples
How inventions change...
Separating the seeds from the cotton lint was tedious and time consuming. Working by hand, a slave could clean about a pound of cotton a day. But the Industrial Revolution was underway, and the demand was increasing.
Video examples
Helping African farmers...
deeply about sigh saw was the way our people in the rural areas were using were producing processing sisal they use the most crude methods and this is so tedious and one who do work the whole
Video examples
There’s Still Oil on...
hello there hi it's tedious work but if he can collect salmon scales from a fresh kill Craig can match the fish to a known spawning site this helps them build a
Video examples
The Celebrity Panda PIPE...
a tedious obsession with my personal business you know matters of the fur boudoir rhubarb i've said too much it's a private matter
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Martha Beck
American Author
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
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Ben Miller
English Comedian
I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.
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Andi Dorfman
American Celebrity
Long runs are definitely tedious, but I find that timing is important on them. I like to do my long runs either early in the morning as the sun rises or in the late afternoon when the sun sets because it gives me something to see instead of thinking about how long I'm running.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
American Writer
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
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Ben Dolnick
American Writer
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
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John McGahern
Irish Writer
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
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Laurie Graham
English Journalist
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Peter Dinklage
American Actor
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
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Martha Beck
American Author
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.
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Ben Miller
English Comedian
I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.
Quote examples
Andi Dorfman
American Celebrity
Long runs are definitely tedious, but I find that timing is important on them. I like to do my long runs either early in the morning as the sun rises or in the late afternoon when the sun sets because it gives me something to see instead of thinking about how long I'm running.
Quote examples
Kim Stanley Robinson
American Writer
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
Quote examples
Ben Dolnick
American Writer
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
Quote examples
John McGahern
Irish Writer
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
Quote examples
Laurie Graham
English Journalist
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
Quote examples
Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Quote examples
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Peter Dinklage
American Actor
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
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