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Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

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  1. a. Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
  2. adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  3. adj. using or containing too many words
  4. Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.
  5. Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,slowness, or the like; wearisome.-- Te"di*ous*ly, adv.-- Te"di*ous*ness, n.I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak.I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.
  6. j:100 s so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness s using or containing too many words