Arduous vs Tedious - What's the difference?
arduous | tedious |
Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
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(obsolete) burning; ardent
(rft-sense) Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
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Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between arduous and tedious
is that arduous is needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.arduous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The movement towards a peaceful settlement has been a long and arduous political struggle.
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- Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. — Cary.
- Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles.
- Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
- Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.
Quotations
(English Citations of "arduous")Synonyms
* burdensome * demanding * exhausting * fatiguing * laborious * onerous * strenuous * wearisomeExternal links
* * *tedious
English
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 .}}