tedious• Doing all those calculations without a computer would be extremely tedious.• But he had come to find her tedious.• The very rigidstructure looks tedious and clumsy to us humans, but we are not meant to be reading it.• In truth, she found watching the endlesscircuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to.• Bullens Creek had started off tiny and tedious and gone downhill from there.• But because this group of people is isolated, the routines may assume a particularly tedious, inexorablecharacter.• a tediouslecture• In order to use them, however, they require a rather tediouspeeling process.• It was one of the most tedious plays I've ever had to sit through.• It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes.
Origintedious
(1400-1500)Late Latintaediosus, from Latintaedium, from taedere“to disgust, make tired”
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, seem, sound單調乏味;好像單調乏味;聽起來乏味▸➤become, get變得令人厭煩◇Her visits were starting to get a little tedious.她的來訪開始有點兒讓人生厭了。➤make sth使⋯變得乏味▸➤find sth覺得⋯乏味◇He found committee meetings extremely tedious.他覺得委員會會議乏味至極。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常乏味▸➤incredibly, mind-numbingly異乎尋常地/令人麻木地乏味▸➤a bit, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些乏味➤increasingly越來越乏味◇The joke became increasingly tedious.笑話變得越來越乏味。