Fidget vs Tedious - What's the difference?
fidget | tedious |
To wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.
* 1883:
To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
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As a verb fidget
is to wiggle or twitch; to move around nervously or idly.As a noun fidget
is a person who fidgets, especially habitually.As an adjective tedious is
boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.fidget
English
Verb
- "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget ," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
citation, passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}
See also
* have the fidgetsAnagrams
*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 .}}