Strenuous vs Tedious - What's the difference?
strenuous | tedious |
Urgent, ardent, zealous.
Requiring great exertion.
* 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between strenuous and tedious
is that strenuous is urgent, ardent, zealous while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.strenuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
Synonyms
* earnest * eager * vigorous * determined * resoluteDerived terms
* strenuously * strenuousnessExternal 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 .}}