Both Uses of
tedious
in
David Copperfield
- My mother lives a little way out of town; and the roads being in a beastly condition, and our house tedious enough, I remained here tonight instead of going on.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- It was very hard, but I turned back, though with a heavy heart, and began laboriously and methodically to plod over the same tedious ground at a snail's pace; stopping to examine minutely every speck in the way, on all sides, and making the most desperate efforts to know these elusive characters by sight wherever I met them.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation