tedious

tedious is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
2. adjective. using or containing too many words

   "long-winded (or windy) speakers"

   "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"

   Synonyms: verbose, windy, wordy

3. adjective. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness- Edmund Burke- Mark Twain

   "a boring evening with uninteresting people"

   "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"

   Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome

Synonyms

verbose, windy, wordy, boring, deadening, dull, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tedious:

outside

Common word forms

tediously, tediousness

Words from these letters

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