[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tedious \te"dious\, a. l. taediosus, fr. taedium. see
   tedium.
   involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,
   slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- te"diously, adv. --
   te"diousness, n.
   1913 webster

         i see a man's life is a tedious one.     --shak.
   1913 webster

         i would not be tedious to the court.     --bunyan.
   1913 webster

   syn: wearisome; fatiguing. see irksome.
        1913 webster
        1913 webster
see also:
tedium te"diously te"diousness irksome 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tedious
     adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
            boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the
            deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull
            play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum
            speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what
            an irksome task the writing of long letters is"-
            edmund burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the
            tiresome chirping of a cricket"- mark twain; "other
            people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" syn: boring,
             deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome,
             wearisome
     2: using or containing too many words; "long-winded or windy
        speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional
        methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy
        editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
        syn: long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy
see also:
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow 
tiresome wearisome long-winded verbose windy 
wordy 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

135 moby thesaurus words for "tedious":
   alliterating, alliterative, arid, assonant, automatic, banal,
   barren, belabored, betwixt and between, blah, blank, bloodless,
   boresome, boring, broken-record, bromidic, changeless, chanting,
   characterless, chiming, cliche-ridden, cold, colorless, dead,
   dingdong, dismal, drab, dragging, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
   drudging, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
   endless, etiolated, everlasting, exhausting, fade, fair,
   fair to middling, fairish, fatiguing, flat, gray, harping, heavy,
   ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, inane, indifferent, inexcitable, insipid,
   invariable, jejune, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, laborious,
   lackluster, leaden, lifeless, long-drawn-out, long-winded,
   low-spirited, mechanical, mediocre, medium, middling, moderate,
   modest, monotone, monotonous, mortal, namby-pamby, of a kind,
   of a sort, of sorts, pale, pallid, passable, pedestrian, plodding,
   pointless, poky, ponderous, prolix, prolonged, prosaic, prosy,
   repetitious, repetitive, respectable, rhymed, rhyming, routine,
   same, samely, singsong, slow, so-so, solemn, soporific, spiritless,
   sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tasteless, tiresome,
   tiring, tolerable, treadmill, unchanging, unending, uneventful,
   unexciting, uninteresting, unlively, unrelieved, unvarying, vapid,
   weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, wishy-washy, wooden

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