All 5 Uses
tedious
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Auto-generated)
- No: I do repent The tedious minutes I with her have spent.†
Scene 2.2tedious = boring or monotonous
- O weary night, O long and tedious night, Abate thy hours!
Scene 3.2 *
- 'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'†
Scene 5.1
- tedious and brief!†
Scene 5.1
- PHILOSTRATE A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, Which makes it tedious: for in all the play There is not one word apt, one player fitted: And tragical, my noble lord, it is; For Pyramus therein doth kill himself: Which when I saw rehears'd, I must confess, Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.†
Scene 5.1
Definitions:
-
(1)
(tedious) boring -- especially because something goes on too long or without variation
-
(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.