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Tedious vs. Tiresome — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tedious and Tiresome

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Tedious

Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous
A tedious journey

Tiresome

Causing one to feel bored or annoyed
Weeding is a tiresome but essential job

Tedious

Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.

Tiresome

Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome.

Tedious

(Obsolete) Moving or progressing very slowly.
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Tiresome

Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
Eventually his long stories became tiresome.

Tedious

Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.

Tiresome

Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.

Tedious

Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
I would not be tedious to the court.

Tiresome

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
A boring evening with uninteresting people
The deadening effect of some routine tasks
A dull play
His competent but dull performance
A ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
What an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Tedious days on the train
The tiresome chirping of a cricket
Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
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Tedious

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
A boring evening with uninteresting people
The deadening effect of some routine tasks
A dull play
His competent but dull performance
A ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
What an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Tedious days on the train
The tiresome chirping of a cricket
Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome

Tedious

Using or containing too many words;
Long-winded (or windy) speakers
Verbose and ineffective instructional methods
Newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials
Proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes

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