Tedious vs Tiring - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between tedious and tiring

is that tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome while tiring is that tires or tire.

As a verb tiring is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun tiring is

action of the verb to tire.

tedious

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

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, year= , author=Arthur Schopenhauer , title=The Art of Literature , chapter=2 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 .}}

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, year= , author=Arthur Schopenhauer , title=The Art of Literature , chapter=2 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 .}}

Synonyms

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Derived terms

* tediously * tediousness

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tiring

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable) Action of the verb to tire .

(falconry) Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.

Adjective

(en adjective)

That tires or tire.

Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring .