Leisurely vs Tedious - What's the difference?
leisurely | tedious | Related terms |
Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
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In a leisurely manner.
*1943 , (Raymond Chandler), The High Window , Penguin 2005, p. 37:
*:Sunset Crescent Drive curved leisurely north from Sunset Boulevard, well beyond the Bel-Air Country Club golf-course.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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Leisurely is a related term of tedious.
As adjectives the difference between leisurely and tedious
is that leisurely is characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As an adverb leisurely
is in a leisurely manner.leisurely
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
Derived terms
* leisurelinessAdverb
(en adverb)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 .}}
