Wearing vs Tedious - What's the difference?
wearing | tedious |
intended to be worn
* Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
causing tiredness
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causing erosion
The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
The act by which something is worn.
That which is worn; clothes; garments.
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Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.
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As adjectives the difference between wearing and tedious
is that wearing is intended to be worn while tedious is boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.As a noun wearing
is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding.As a verb wearing
is .wearing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- formal crown-wearings
- Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)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 .}}