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Definition

boring — especially because something goes on too long or without variation

Much more rarely, tedious can mean "long and slow" or "progressing very slowly" without any implication of being dull or boring.

I'll have to endure one of her tedious lectures.

tedious = boring

I find it relaxing to do the holiday dishes, but she finds it tedious.

tedious = boring

The work gets tedious, but after I "pay my dues," I anticipate being promoted to more interesting work.
tedious days traveling
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Virgil
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandino
And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
We never worked so long or hard that it got tedious.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

tedious = boring

In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interesting and important.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life

tedious = boring or monotonous

But it would be boring to go through all the tedious details of all the changes in their lives.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

tedious = boring

Three dreadful days and nights dragged their tedious hours along,
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

tedious = boring

What I don't like are tedious, practical people.
Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband

tedious = boring

It was most pesky tedious hard work and slow,
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tedious = boring

it was certainly a tedious party.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

tedious = boring

We spent tedious hours teaching ourselves the Tut language.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tedious = long, monotonous (boring)

These tedious old fools!
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

tedious = boring or monotonous

The Reverend took a long time unwindin' this morning, he's not usually so tedious.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

tedious = long and boring

  Streets that follow like a tedious argument
  Of insidious intent
  To lead you to an overwhelming question...
  Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
  Let us go and make our visit.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

tedious = long and boring

De Maurepas merely echoes what I say, which is comfortable but tedious.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet

tedious = boring

I already felt worlds away from this courtroom and its tedious "proceedings."
Albert Camus -- The Stranger

tedious = boring

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