tedious

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" [syn: {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" [syn: {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.
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         I see a man's life is a tedious one.     --Shak.
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         I would not be tedious to the court.     --Bunyan.
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   Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See {Irksome}.
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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