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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tedious \Te"di*ous\, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See
     {Tedium}.]
     Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,
     slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- {Te"di*ous*ly}, adv. --
     {Te"di*ous*ness}, n.
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           I see a man's life is a tedious one.     --Shak.
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           I would not be tedious to the court.     --Bunyan.
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     Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See {Irksome}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tedious
       adj 1: 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" [syn: {boring},
               {deadening}, {dull}, {ho-hum}, {irksome}, {slow}, {tiresome},
               {wearisome}]
       2: 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"
          [syn: {long-winded}, {verbose}, {windy}, {wordy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "tedious":
     alliterating, alliterative, arid, assonant, automatic, banal,
     barren, belabored, betwixt and between, blah, blank, bloodless,
     boresome, boring, broken-record, bromidic, changeless, chanting,
     characterless, chiming, cliche-ridden, cold, colorless, dead,
     dingdong, dismal, drab, dragging, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
     drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
     endless, etiolated, everlasting, exhausting, fade, fair,
     fair to middling, fairish, fatiguing, flat, gray, harping, heavy,
     ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid,
     invariable, jejune, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, laborious,
     lackluster, leaden, lifeless, long-drawn-out, long-winded,
     low-spirited, mechanical, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate,
     modest, monotone, monotonous, mortal, namby-pamby, of a kind,
     of a sort, of sorts, pale, pallid, passable, pedestrian, plodding,
     pointless, poky, ponderous, prolix, prolonged, prosaic, prosy,
     repetitious, repetitive, respectable, rhymed, rhyming, routine,
     same, samely, singsong, slow, so-so, solemn, soporific, spiritless,
     sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tiresome,
     tiring, tolerable, treadmill, unchanging, unending, uneventful,
     unexciting, uninteresting, unlively, unrelieved, unvarying, vapid,
     weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wishy-washy, wooden
  
  

















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