Tedious vs Laborious - What's the difference?
tedious | laborious |
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
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Mentally difficult; painstaking
Industrious.
* Dryden
As adjectives the difference between tedious and laborious
is that tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome while laborious is requiring much physical effort; toilsome.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 .}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* tediously * tediousnessAnagrams
* *laborious
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Alternative forms
* labourious * laborous * labourousAdjective
(en adjective)- Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious , and short.
- All with united force combine to drive / The lazy drones from the laborious hive.