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tedious
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Henry IV, Part 1
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- If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;Scene 1.2 *tedious = boring or monotonous - And bring him out that is but woman's son Can trace me in the tedious ways of art, And hold me pace in deep experiments.†
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- O, he's as tedious As a tired horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates and have him talk to me In any summer-house in Christendom.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation
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(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.