different between borning vs tedious

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??n??/

Verb

borning

1. present participle of born

Adjective

borning (not comparable)

1. In the process of being born.
   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, p. 332:

     While yanking a borning calf from its mother's womb Moore suffered a bizarre and fatal accident: the cord arted abruptly, sending my owner in a sprawl backward until his head fetched up against a post and cracked open like a melon.

Anagrams

• bring on

English

Alternative forms

• tædious (archaic)
• teedyus

Etymology

Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taedi?sus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ti?.d??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ti.di.?s/, /?ti.d??s/
• Rhymes: -i?di?s

Adjective

tedious (comparative more tedious, superlative most tedious)

1. Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wearisome

Derived terms

• tediously
• tediousness

Related terms

• tedium

Translations

Anagrams

• Outside, dies out, outside, side out, sudoite