Both Uses
tedious
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- come, loving black-browed
night,
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love
But not possessed it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoyed. So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.†p. 131.6tedious = boring or monotonous - I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
p. 237.7 *tedious = long and uninteresting
Definitions:
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(1)
(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, tedious can mean "long and slow" or "progressing very slowly" without any implication of being dull or boring.