Antonyms for tediously


Grammar : Adv
Spell : tee-dee-uhs, tee-juhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈti di əs, ˈti dʒəs


Definition of tediously

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediosus "wearisome, irksome, tedious," from Latin taedium (see tedium).
  • As in heavily : adv laboriously
Example sentences :
  • I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.
  • Extract from : « The Picture of Dorian Gray » by Oscar Wilde
  • Toward this, in an advance 178 tediously slow, the veteran made his way.
  • Extract from : « Heart of the Blue Ridge » by Waldron Baily
  • Tediously an hour passed and there was no sign of Joe Hawkridge.
  • Extract from : « Blackbeard: Buccaneer » by Ralph D. Paine
  • Then to church again, and heard a simple Scot preach most tediously.
  • Extract from : « Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete » by Samuel Pepys
  • The top round of the high ladder which he had climbed so tediously was within his grasp.
  • Extract from : « Grit A-Plenty » by Dillon Wallace
  • Slowly, tediously, he crawled, for the most part on his hands and knees.
  • Extract from : « Harley Greenoak's Charge » by Bertram Mitford
  • It was tediously familiar, stamped upon his brain by repetition after repetition.
  • Extract from : « The Lieutenant-Governor » by Guy Wetmore Carryl
  • A Chinese dinner is so tediously long that we escape it altogether.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 » by Various
  • They said it so often and so tediously that, at last, the Church has begun to say it.
  • Extract from : « Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man » by Oscar Wilde
  • Tediously, Harry; I seem to have lost the spirit of the thing.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Evelin Delorme » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Synonyms for tediously

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