Synonyms for TEDIOUS
ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəste·dious

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1. tedious

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

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

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1. tedious

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

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

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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"

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

   Antonyms:
   interesting, concise

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   interesting, concise

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1. tediousadjective

   Synonyms:
   wearisome (in consequence of being prolonged), tiresome, operose, IRKSOME, fatiguing, uninteresting, too long, monotonous, humdrum, prosy, MORTAL, trying, devoid of interest

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1. tediousadjective

   Synonyms:
   tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous

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1. List of paraphrases for "tedious":

   boring, dull, tiresome, cumbersome, annoying, long-winded, time-consuming, monotonous, laborious, burdensome

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1. Ray Pruitt:

   It's extremely challenging, it's a slow tedious process because this guy has already proven to us that he is extremely dangerous.

2. Jeremy Hay:

   Zenefits takes away a lot of the tedious work and allows me to focus on bigger-picture items, it’s also a much more professional experience for the employee. Think about how you’d feel if you were to sign up with a company, and all the paperwork’s online, and you can digitally sign all of your documents online. It makes you feel like, ‘Wow, I’m with a company that has it all together,’ even though Zenefits is really doing all the legwork.

3. Xavier VanHove:

   They've been far too complacent. What is clear is they'll have to do whatever they do at the last possible minute, 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.

4. Laura Hadden:

   We’ve always said that if it gets tedious then we can just stop, but it hasn’t gotten boring yet.

5. Pierre Elliott Trudeau:

   I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.