All 3 Uses of
tedious
in
The Importance of Being Earnest
- Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!†
Act 1tedious = boring or monotonous
- A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
Act 1 *tedious = boring
- Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.†
Act 1tedious = boring or monotonous
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) 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.