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 .}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Industrious; diligent.

*1837 , Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The French revolution: a history :

— and so, through seas of blood, to Equality, Frugality, worksome Blessedness, Fraternity, and Republic of the virtues.

Laborious; work-intensive.

*1968 , University of Santo Tomás, Philippiniana sacra: Volume 3 :

At the very beginnings of his governance time began to show how turbulent and worksome it was going to be, [...]