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tediousness

/tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs/US // ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəs //UK // (ˈtiːdɪəs) //

乏味,乏味性,乏味的,烦琐

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
    • : wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker, a writer, or the work they produce; prolix.

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Examples

  • Getting a vaccine through clinical trials and approved by the Food and Drug Administration is a tedious, expensive, and time-consuming process.

  • Mic standHolding a microphone is fun when you’re pretending to host a game show, but it gets tedious during a staff meeting.

  • You begin by collecting evidence, picking up or examining items around you, but the process is tedious.

  • Everything was happening on some sort of screen, and the tedious video engagements and text messages often left her frustrated.

  • However, in a crowd of 30 million company pages, to stand out and grow your brand is undoubtedly a tedious task.

  • Despite its length and occasional tediousness, that video has been watched (and re-watched) by nearly 800,000 viewers.

  • The man who suspects his own tediousness, is yet to be born.

  • The observances of the table had one merit in the Fumbally household; they were conducted with no unnecessary tediousness.

  • Formerly, too, the major had also excelled mightily in miscellaneous conversation, dominating it by sheer weight of tediousness.

  • The sameness, the humdrum tediousness of the everyday life drives them to the city.

  • I would rather bear tediousness, dear, than have time made short by such means as have shortened mine.

  • Reference to his watch at short intervals intensified their duration, added gall to their tediousness.