TEDIOUS Synonyms: 151 Similar and Opposite Words

tedious

adjective

ˈtē-dē-əs

Definition of tedious

as in boring

causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest a long and tedious staff meeting

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Recent Examples of tedious There are ways to turn off AI features, although the process can be tedious. — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 18 Sep. 2026 Films are shot out of sequence and are full of long, tedious days of stop-start action. — Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026 But, the report sheds light on how increasingly capable AI models can expedite the once-tedious task of aggregating and analyzing large volumes of publicly available data. — Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 Your tact and tedious approach benefit you greatly today, Virgo. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tedious

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Adjective

Let’s start with tracking Savu, where, because of the tiny tribes, the most obvious and boring thing ends up happening.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Smith is betting that in a market where every phone looks the same, the bigger risk is being boring.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of boring

Adjective

Tommy Gemmell, advanced from left-back, provided the equaliser on 63 minutes and with Inter tiring and Celtic still pushing, Chalmers scored the famous winner with six minutes left.

— Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
But after a while, the lack of grounding gets tiring, as various supernatural shenanigans appear to be determined more by plot convenience than anything else.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of tiring

Adjective

But also, the audience is not used to people delivering blunt questions — no matter how stupid the answer.

— Jade Tran, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2026
Pierce and Kember were born in the same place on the same day, a lore-enhancing coincidence too stupid to make up.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of stupid

Adjective

Many of the strongest initial applications are the dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks that go unfilled, contribute to injuries, and pull people away from higher-value judgment and exception handling.

— Navin Chaddha, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
But in the years between Logic1000’s in-your-face debut EP and 2024’s duller, more careful Mother, her solo work became less singular.

— Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of dull

Adjective

Sean Durzi scored 78 seconds in, Dylan Garand made 29 saves and the New York Rangers defeated the travel-weary Ducks 5-2 on Monday night to improve to 6-0-0 at home this fall.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Sean Durzi scored 78 seconds in, Dylan Garand made 29 saves and the New York Rangers defeated the travel-weary Anaheim Ducks 5-2 on Monday night to improve to 6-0-0 at home this fall.

— CBS New York Team, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of weary

Adjective

The pickup’s driver, a 34-year-old woman from Garden City, Kansas, was taken into custody but was later released after police consulted with the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.

— Maggie Vespa, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Melanie Lawrence, a 68-year-old independent, worries about wells going dry in her area near Willcox, where the groundwater grew so depleted that the land started to crack.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of old

Adjective

The state was apportioned a bare 300,000 acre-feet a year in 1928, when Las Vegas was merely a dusty outpost miles from the Hoover Dam construction site.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
On July 2, 2025, a burst with energy equivalent to 1,000 suns blazing for 10 billion years lit up Fermi’s detectors, heading from a dusty galaxy about eight billion light-years from Earth.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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