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• (British) IPA: /ˈtiː.dɪəs/
• (America) IPA: /ˈti.di.əs/, /ˈti.d͡ʒəs/

tedious

1. Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:wearisome

   • 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC ↗, [https://https://books.google.com/books?id=-KxkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA58 pages 57–58]:

     But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.

   • 1726 October 27, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver's Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC ↗, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [176] ↗:

     However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.

   • 1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], published 1785, →OCLC ↗, page 343 ↗:

     John Gilpin's ſpouse ſaid to her dear, / Though wedded we have been / Theſe twice ten tedious years, yet we / No holiday have ſeen.

• tedium

• French: fastidieux, laborieux
• German: ermüdend, langweilig, langwierig, lästig, mühsam, nervtötend, weitschweifig
• Italian: noioso, tedioso, fastidioso, palloso, soporifero
• Portuguese: entediante, enfadonho, monótono
• Russian: ну́дный
• Spanish: tedioso, prolijo