1
: the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness
also
: boredom
2
: a tedious period of time
Examples of tedium in a Sentence
The movie was three hours of tedium.
I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.
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For the director’s detractors, these can be chunks of pure tedium, indicative of his hands-off, fly-on-the wall approach to cinema.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
Long-distance truckers have for decades used them to tolerate the tedium of the road.
—Paul Tough Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Relieving the tedium of daily life, especially for the women who endure it most, has been the powerful motivation for many of the most innovative businesses of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
—Pat Butler, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
But at that difficulty, humans had only been able to force their way through the slaughter level in multi-segment runs, exploiting save states to preserve their best performances and break up the nerve-wracking tedium.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
Long-distance truckers have for decades used them to tolerate the tedium of the road.
—Paul Tough Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Relieving the tedium of daily life, especially for the women who endure it most, has been the powerful motivation for many of the most innovative businesses of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
—Pat Butler, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
But at that difficulty, humans had only been able to force their way through the slaughter level in multi-segment runs, exploiting save states to preserve their best performances and break up the nerve-wracking tedium.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Tedium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tedium. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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