Humdrum vs Tedious - What's the difference?
humdrum | tedious |
The quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.
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Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between humdrum and tedious
is that humdrum is lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As a noun humdrum
is the quality of lacking variety or excitement; dullness.humdrum
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Noun
(-)- I think it helped distract us from the dry, humdrum , and heat of the here and now.
Synonyms
* See alsotedious
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, 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 .}}
citation, 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 .}}
