All 5 Uses of
tedious
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer...slow, tedious lumbering, laborious, but invincible.†
Part 2 *tedious = boring or monotonous
- It was way too tedious and difficult for a course in freshman composition.†
Part 3
- So I spent more than a year reading the very long and sometimes very tedious history of philosophy in a search for duplicate ideas.†
Part 3
- In some intermittents you have to resign yourself to a long fishing expedition, but no matter how tedious that gets it's never as tedious as taking the machine to a commercial mechanic five times.†
Part 3
- In some intermittents you have to resign yourself to a long fishing expedition, but no matter how tedious that gets it's never as tedious as taking the machine to a commercial mechanic five times.†
Part 3
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.