Slog vs Tedious - What's the difference?
slog | tedious |
(chiefly, British, and, Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
(cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
(by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
* {{quote-book
, year=
, author=Arthur Schopenhauer
, title=The Art of Literature
, chapter=2
* {{quote-book
, year=
, author=Arthur Schopenhauer
, title=The Art of Literature
, chapter=2
As a noun slog
is army, host.As an adjective tedious is
boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.slog
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(slogg)- A miraculous desert rain. We slog , dripping, into As Safi, Jordan. We drive the sodden mules through wet streets. To the town’s only landmark. To the “Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth.”
Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* ----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 .}}