Mild vs Tedious - What's the difference?
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Gentle and not easily provoked.
(of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity.
Not keenly felt or seriously intended.
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(of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
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(of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.
Not sharp, or strong in flavor.
(British) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
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Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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Mild is a related term of tedious.
As adjectives the difference between mild and tedious
is that mild is gentle and not easily provoked while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As a noun mild
is (british) a relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale.mild
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
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Synonyms
* soft, gentle, bland, calm, tranquil, soothing, pleasant, placid, meek, kind, tender, indulgent, clement, mollifying, lenitive, assuasive * See alsoAntonyms
* strong * harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeableNoun
(en noun)- 'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild .
- But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong.
Derived terms
* mild and bitterExternal links
* * * ----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 .}}