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Synonyms for tedium
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : tee-dee-uhm |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈti di əm |
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Définition of tedium
Origin :- 1660s, from Latin taedium "weariness, disgust," related to taedet "it is wearisome," and to taedere "to weary." Possible cognates are Old Church Slavonic tezo, Lithuanian tingiu "to be dull, be listless."
- noun dullness, monotony
- Bob, thus forming his Utopian plans, forgot the tedium of the trail.
- Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
- And now the tedium of such a life was plainer to her than it would have been then.
- Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
- Cassy foresaw, too, that the tedium would not be attenuated by Paliser's conversation.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- A payday now and then didn't make up for the tedium of labor.
- Extract from : « The Pirates of Ersatz » by Murray Leinster
- The tedium of futile undertakings will oppress us from the first moment.
- Extract from : « Spontaneous Activity in Education » by Maria Montessori
- And, in fact, there was now an end of tedium—but of other things also!
- Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 » by Various
- The weather doubled the time and the tedium of the passage of this ridge.
- Extract from : « The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) » by Hudson Stuck
- After so much excitement, the king was seized with a cruel fit of tedium.
- Extract from : « Laboulaye's Fairy Book » by Various
- She went to be measured for a gown and could not support the tedium of the operation.
- Extract from : « The Sins of Sverac Bablon » by Sax Rohmer
- But again the tedium and the sense of the falsity of the spoken word put her off.
- Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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