Antonyms for tedious
ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəste·dious

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1. tedious

   Antonyms:
   brief, compact, compendious, concise, condensed, laconic, neat, pithy, sententious, short, succinct, terse

   Synonyms:
   diffuse, lengthy, long, prolix, verbose, wordy

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1. tedious

   Antonyms:
   interesting, exciting, stirring, charming, fascinating, delightful, amusing

   Synonyms:
   wearisome, tiresome, monotonous, dilatory, dreary, sluggish, irksome, dull, flat, prolix

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisomeadjective

   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"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

   Antonyms:
   interesting, concise

   Synonyms:
   dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, boring, verbose, dumb, leaden, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, tiresome, muffled, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, thudding, softened

2. long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordyadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   interesting, concise

   Synonyms:
   dull, wearisome, windy, wordy, boring, verbose, blowy, slow, impractical, airy, tiresome, breezy, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, visionary, deadening

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1. tediousadjective

   Synonyms:
   tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous

How to use tedious in a sentence?

1. James Russell Lowell:

   Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

2. Xavier VanHove:

   But, here's the silver lining. This is actually forcing them to look at systems harder than they otherwise might. So this difficult, long and tedious exercise will eventually make RBS a much better and more efficient bank.

3. Fox News:

   Here’s hoping the person who fills Meghan’s chair is willing and able to push back hard and effectively on the predictable narrative and drumbeat of that program - which is somehow more hard left than CNN, we need more speech in this country, not less, and echo chambers are proudly tedious.

4. Modern COO:

   But it got really tedious really fast, i was blocking out a whole day each week just to process payments.

5. Og Mandino:

   The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

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