Monotonous vs Tedious - What's the difference?
monotonous | tedious |
As adjectives the difference between monotonous and tedious is that monotonous is having an unvarying tone or pitch while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
monotonous English
Adjective
( en adjective)
having an unvarying tone or pitch
tedious, repetitious or lacking in variety
Related terms
* monotone
* monotony
Synonyms
* monotonic
* samely
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tedious English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)
Adjective
( en adjective)
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
* {{quote-book
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, 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 .}}
* {{quote-book
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, title=The Art of Literature
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, 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 also
Derived terms
* tediously
* tediousness
Related terms
* tedium
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