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Adjective tedious has 2 senses

• tedious(s = adj.all) boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome - 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"; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Derived forms noun tediousness₁, noun tedium₂, noun tedium₁

• tedious(s = adj.all) long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy - 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"
Derived form noun tediousness₁

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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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Weariness

N weariness, defatigation, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill, stiff, heavy hours, the enemy (time), wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of, wearily, usque ad nauseam, time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita.

Dullness

N dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity &c, stupidity want of originality, dearth of ideas, prose, matter of fact, heavy book, conte a dormir debout, platitude, dull, dull as ditch water, unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust, unfunny, unlively, logy, unimaginative, insulse, dry as dust, prosy, prosing, prosaic, matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless, weary stale flat and unprofitable, stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous, melancholic, stolid plodding, boring, tiresome, tedious, davus sum non Aedipus, deadly dull and boring, DDB.

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