as in boredom
the state of being bored
the tedium of spending a rainy afternoon trapped inside the house
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Recent Examples of tedium
Google's new tool lets users search for flight options using natural language, rather than having to go through the tedium of searching for an endless combination of dates and destinations to find a good deal.
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
For Scholten, real life is what any Los Angeleno knows all too well: hours stuck in soul-crushing traffic, Monday through Friday, with only podcasts to allay the tedium.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
GitHub's Copilot reduces the tedium of writing boilerplate functions by autocompleting repetitive code patterns.
—Gabriel Snyder, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Boredom can sometimes feel like a bygone luxury in an age of screens and constant distractions—yet even with all the content in the world at our fingertips, tedium manages to creep in.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 29 May 2025
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Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
For Scholten, real life is what any Los Angeleno knows all too well: hours stuck in soul-crushing traffic, Monday through Friday, with only podcasts to allay the tedium.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2025
GitHub's Copilot reduces the tedium of writing boilerplate functions by autocompleting repetitive code patterns.
—Gabriel Snyder, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Boredom can sometimes feel like a bygone luxury in an age of screens and constant distractions—yet even with all the content in the world at our fingertips, tedium manages to creep in.
—Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tedium
boredom
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That at a certain point, the gooner will open his eyes, find himself in a room filled with lube but void of love, and decide that the boredom of staying in that room outweighs the fear of whatever lies beyond it.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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And yes, there were occasional hijinks spurred by youthful boredom and restlessness.—
Scott Huver,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Tedium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tedium. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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