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Definition of 'tedious'English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)
Adjective
( en-adj)
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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|author=Arthur Schopenhauer
|title=The Art of Literature
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|passage=A work is objectively tedious' when it contains the defect in question; that is to say, when its author has no perfectly clear thought or knowledge to communicate. For if a man has any clear thought or knowledge in him, his aim will be to communicate it, and he will direct his energies to this end; so that the ideas he furnishes are everywhere clearly expressed. The result is that he is neither diffuse, nor unmeaning, nor confused, and consequently not ' tedious .}}
* {{quote-book
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|author=Arthur Schopenhauer
|title=The Art of Literature
|chapter=2
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|passage=The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted. The best work may, therefore, be tedious' subjectively, ' tedious .}}
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Derived terms
* tediously
* tediousness
Related terms
* tedium
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