Trying vs Tedious - What's the difference?
trying | tedious |
Difficult to endure; arduous.
*1891 , Conan Doyle,
*:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
(philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
* 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between trying and tedious
is that trying is difficult to endure; arduous while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As a verb trying
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun trying
is the act by which one tries something; an attempt.trying
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(en noun)- In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
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*tedious
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* (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 .}}