Borning vs Tedious - What's the difference?
borning | tedious |
That is in the process of being born.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 332:
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between borning and tedious
is that borning is that is in the process of being born while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As a verb borning
is .borning
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- While yanking a borning calf from its mother's womb Moore suffered a bizarre and fatal accident: the cord arted abruptly, sending my owner in a sprawl backward until his head fetched up against a post and cracked open like a melon.
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 .}}