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tedious

 
Adjective tedious has 2 senses
  1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome - 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"
    Antonym: interesting (indirect, via uninteresting)
  2. long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy - 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"
    Antonym: concise (indirect, via prolix)
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