Lengthy vs Tedious - What's the difference?
lengthy | tedious |
Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
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Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between lengthy and tedious
is that lengthy is having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.lengthy
English
Adjective
(er)citation, page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
- a lengthy text
- a lengthy discussion
- a laborious and lengthy process
- She died last night after a lengthy illness.
- They received lengthy prison terms.
tedious
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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 .}}