Tedious vs Tenuous - What's the difference?
tedious | tenuous |
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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Thin in substance or consistency.
insubstantial
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
As adjectives the difference between tedious and tenuous
is that tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome while tenuous is thin in substance or consistency.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
* *tenuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
- His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
- Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.