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tedious

Meaning

Characterized by excessive length or duration, or by a lack of engaging elements, leading to a feeling of weariness or boredom.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

The long, unchanging drive felt incredibly tedious. Hours blurred together with nothing new to see. My eyes grew heavy, and a deep weariness set in, making me wish it was over already.

Sorting through the mountain of forgotten buttons from Grandma’s sewing room was a truly tedious task. Each tiny disc offered nothing new, just endless shades of plastic and dull metal, making the hours stretch on with a heavy, boring weight.

Sorting through the discarded, fuzzy dryer lint felt incredibly tedious. Hours crawled by, each dusty clump looking the same as the last, making my eyes ache and my mind wander. It was such a long, boring chore with no real point.

After reading the instructions for assembling the giant inflatable dinosaur, I realized the task was incredibly tedious. Each tiny screw and obscure diagram made me want to lie down and nap, like a very bored sloth on a hot afternoon.

Sorting my collection of novelty socks, each one featuring a different type of cheese, was a truly tedious task. Hours passed as I categorized Gouda from Gruyère, the sheer duration and identical patterns of cheddar socks making me profoundly weary.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

Sorting through endless stacks of receipts for the audit was a tedious task. Hours blurred into a monotonous blur of paper, each number and date blending into the next, leaving me utterly drained and wishing it would just be over.

The long process of cataloging every single type of spore found on fallen moonpetal leaves was incredibly tedious. Hours blurred into an endless stream of microscopic identification, each identical specimen only deepening the weariness and boredom that settled in.

Sorting through the thousand identical spools of raw bioluminescent algae fibers was a truly tedious task. Hours blurred into one, the repetitive motion and the dim glow of the lab making my eyes ache and my mind wander, desperately seeking a flicker of interest in the unending, shimmering strands.

After the thousandth time Uncle Barry explained his "ingenious" plan to train squirrels to deliver mail, the endless, repetitive drone became utterly tedious. My eyes glazed over, my brain felt like mush, and I desperately wished for a distraction, any distraction, from his lengthy, boring tale.

My cat's insistence on meticulously grooming each individual grain of kibble before consumption made mealtime a truly tedious affair. It felt like watching paint dry, but with fur and a tiny pink tongue. I swear he spent longer preparing his food than I did at my last dentist appointment.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

The long, drawn-out meeting felt incredibly tedious. Every agenda item droned on, with no exciting points to keep anyone's attention. By the end, a profound weariness settled over the room, a shared boredom from the sheer, unvarying length of it all.

The endless process of cataloging the dried, brittle husks of bioluminescent fungal spores was, frankly, tedious. Each specimen required meticulous identification and precise measurement, a slow, repetitive task that dulled the mind and made the hours stretch interminably.

The meticulous scraping of barnacles from the hull felt incredibly tedious. Hours stretched into an eternity, each tiny, resistant shell a testament to the ocean's relentless embrace, leaving me utterly drained and just wishing it would end.

Sorting my extensive collection of oddly-shaped buttons was proving to be a truly tedious endeavor. Each tiny, eccentric disc offered no inherent fascination, and the sheer volume of their peculiar forms stretched on for what felt like an epoch, making my eyeballs ache with profound ennui.

The ceremonial polishing of the great space-whale's dorsal fin proved to be a rather tedious affair. Each microscopic scratch required individual attention, a task that stretched on for eons, threatening to dull even the most enthusiastic intergalactic barnacle scraper. My spirit sagged; the sparkle simply wasn't worth the soul-crushing monotony.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

Hours of meticulously reviewing archaic shipping manifests felt incredibly tedious. Each entry was a drone, a repetition that slowly eroded his concentration, leaving him with an unshakeable weariness. He yearned for something, anything, to break the monotonous cycle.

The lengthy observation period for the bioluminescent algae bloom was becoming genuinely tedious. Hours bled into days with only subtle shifts in phosphorescence, a monotonous spectacle that drained the team's initial fascination, leaving them utterly weary.

The protracted vigil over the bioluminescent fungal bloom became utterly tedious. Hours stretched into an eternity, observing minute shifts in phosphorescence, each flicker a testament to the overwhelming duration and lack of genuine intrigue. Exhaustion gnawed at their resolve, a palpable weariness born from monotonous observation.

Bartholomew, facing a mountain of meticulously alphabetized sporks, found the task utterly tedious. His eyelids drooped, a testament to the excessive duration and singular lack of engaging elements in his fork-and-spoon-hybrid sorting. He yearned for something, anything, less soul-crushingly wearisome than this veritable purgatory of cutlery.

The meticulous dissection of a petrified platypus eyeball proved an unexpectedly tedious endeavor. Hours dissolved into an amorphous blob of microscopic observation, each cellular layer a monotonous repetition, until even the stench of ancient ichor inspired only profound ennui.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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