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tedium

English

Alternative forms

  • taedium
  • tædium (dated)

Etymology

Latin taedium, from taed?re (“to weary”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ti?.di.?m/
  • Rhymes: -i?di?m

Noun

tedium (usually uncountable, plural tediums or tedia)

  1. Boredom or tediousness; ennui.
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 8
      Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 192]:
      Nothing actual ever suits pure expectation and such purity of expectation is a great source of tedium.

Synonyms

  • boredom, drudgery, ennui, tediousness

Related terms

  • taedium vitae
  • tedious

Translations

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tedious

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

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