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

Example sentences :

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

Antonyms for tedium

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