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tedious - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: tedious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, monotonous
Synonyms: annoying, arid, banal, boring, drab, dragging, dreary, dry, dusty*, endless, humdrum, insipid, irksome, laborious, lifeless, mortal, pabulum*, poky*, prosaic, slow, snooze*, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, bromidic, draggy, drudging, dull as dishwater, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, long-drawn-out, prosy, weariful
Antonyms: entertaining, exciting, interesting
Main Entry: boring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: uninteresting
Synonyms: arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn
Antonyms: exciting, fascinating, interesting
Main Entry: dragging
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tiresome, monotonous
Synonyms: boring, dull, humdrum, lengthy, long, prolonged, tedious, wearisome, drawn-out, going slowly, overlong, protracted
Antonyms: lively, energizing
Main Entry: dullsville
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boring
Synonyms: blah*, dead*, tedious, deadsville, dragsville, hicksville
Main Entry: flatulent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretentious, long-winded
Synonyms: bombastic, inflated, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy
Antonyms: brief, unpretentious
Main Entry: humdrum
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boring, uneventful
Synonyms: arid, blah, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, insipid, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vanilla*, wearisome, banausic, bromidic, garden-variety, monotone, plodding, prosy, toneless, treadmill, unvaried, white-bread
Antonyms: busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual
Main Entry: irksome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: annoying
Synonyms: boring, bothersome, burdensome, irritating, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, aggravating, troubling, vexing
Main Entry: lengthy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extended
Synonyms: diffuse, dragging, elongate, elongated, interminable, long, long-winded, padded, prolix, prolonged, tedious, tiresome, verbose, wearisome, windy, wordy, drawn-out, lengthened, longish, overlong, protracted, very long
Antonyms: abbreviated, curtailed, shortened
Main Entry: monotonous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: all the same, remaining the same
Synonyms: blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, dull, flat, humdrum*, nothing, pedestrian, prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, soporific, tedious, tiresome, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninteresting, unvarying, wearisome, banausic, droning, dull as dishwater, flat as pancake, ho-hum, monotone, plodding, puts one to sleep, reiterated, samely, sing-song, toneless, treadmill, uninflected, unrelieved, unvaried, wearying
Antonyms: changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile, ever-changing
Main Entry: painful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: physically or mentally agonizing
Synonyms: agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, sensitive, severe, sharp, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious, aching, afflictive, extremely bad, hurting, saddening, smarting, throbbing, tormenting
Antonyms: delightful, easy, pleasant, painless
Main Entry: prosaic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unimaginative
Synonyms: actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, hackneyed, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, monotonous, mundane, nothing, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, vanilla*, vapid, yawn*, zero*, diddly, garden-variety, ho-hum, lusterless, matter-of- fact, nowhere, platitudinous, prosy, uninspiring, workaday
Antonyms: creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking
Main Entry: stodgy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, stuffy
Synonyms: boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty, banausic, plodding
Antonyms: adventurous, exciting, ready, willing
Main Entry: taxing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: burdensome
Synonyms: demanding, difficult, disturbing, exacting, exigent, grievous, heavy, onerous, oppressive, punishing, tedious, tiring, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weighty, enervating, sapping, stressful
Antonyms: easy, untroubling
Main Entry: tiresome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irritating, exasperating
Synonyms: annoying, arduous, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, dull, exacting, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, humdrum, irksome, laborious, monotonous, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, yawn*, a bit much, boresome, drudging, enervative, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, jading, nowhere, uncool, unrelieved, wearying
Antonyms: easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating
Main Entry: uneventful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: monotonous, dull
Synonyms: boring, common, commonplace, humdrum, inconclusive, indecisive, ordinary, prosaic, quiet, routine, tedious, unexceptional, unexciting, uninteresting, unfateful, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unvaried
Antonyms: eventful, exciting, extraordinary, memorable
Main Entry: unimaginative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dull, predictable
Synonyms: banal, barren, common, commonplace, derivative, dime a dozen, dry, flat, hackneyed, lifeless, matter-of-fact, ordinary, pabulum, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, square*, tame, tedious, trite, uninspired, unoriginal, usual, vanilla*, zero*, bromidic, dull as dishwater, ho hum, uncreative, unromantic, well-worn
Antonyms: creative, imaginative, original
Main Entry: uninteresting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: boring, uneventful
Synonyms: arid, banal, common, commonplace, depressing, dismal, drab, dreary, dry, dull, dusty*, flat, humdrum, insipid, irksome, jejune, monotonous, nothing*, pedestrian, prosaic, soporific, stale, stupid, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unexciting, wearisome, big yawn, bromidic, fatiguing, ho hum, nowhere, prosy, unenjoyable, unentertaining, uninspiring
Antonyms: eventful, exciting, interesting
Main Entry: vapid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flat, dull
Synonyms: bland, boring, colorless, dead*, flavorless, inane, innocuous, insipid, jejune, least, lifeless, limp, nothing, stale, tame, tasteless, tedious, tiresome, unimaginative, uninteresting, unpalatable, vacant, vacuous, watery, weak, wishy-washy*, zero*, driveling, flat tire, milk-and-water, milquetoast, nowhere, uninspiring
Antonyms: lively, pungent, sharp, spicy, strong
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