Synonyms for tedious
ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəste·dious

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1. tedious

   Synonyms:
   diffuse, lengthy, long, prolix, verbose, wordy

   Antonyms:
   brief, compact, compendious, concise, condensed, laconic, neat, pithy, sententious, short, succinct, terse

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1. tedious

   Synonyms:
   wearisome, tiresome, monotonous, dilatory, dreary, sluggish, irksome, dull, flat, prolix

   Antonyms:
   interesting, exciting, stirring, charming, fascinating, delightful, amusing

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1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, boring, verbose, dumb, leaden, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, tiresome, muffled, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, thudding, softened

   Antonyms:
   interesting, concise

2. long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordyadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dull, wearisome, windy, wordy, boring, verbose, blowy, slow, impractical, airy, tiresome, breezy, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, visionary, deadening

   Antonyms:
   interesting, concise

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1. tediousadjective

   Synonyms:
   wearisome (in consequence of being prolonged), tiresome, operose, IRKSOME, fatiguing, uninteresting, too long, monotonous, humdrum, prosy, MORTAL, trying, devoid of interest

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1. tediousadjective

   Synonyms:
   tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous

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1. List of paraphrases for "tedious":

   boring, dull, tiresome, cumbersome, annoying, long-winded, time-consuming, monotonous, laborious, burdensome

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1. Robin Nordmeyer:

   Some of those things come very easy — like, they’re in my wheelhouse, they energize me, I ca n’t wait to get to them, and some of those things are a little more tedious, or I have some resistance around them.

2. Oscar Wilde:

   They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

3. Dennis Dirkmaat:

   It's still a process, slow, tedious process of removing all of this debris. And so it's going to take a while.

4. Ken Meeks:

   It’s hard enough to get up in the morning and go through this tedious process of getting dressed and getting a cup of coffee. Then to do therapy is difficult. More mentally than physically. You do repetitive things — gross motor movement, something for the fingers, then something for the wrist. Repetitiveness is the key to all of this.

5. William Shakespeare:

   Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.