English-Thai Dictionary

tedium

N ความ น่าเบื่อ  tediousness dearth dullness kwam-na-buea

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TEDIUM

n.[L. toedium.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TEDIUM

Te "di *um, n. Etym: [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one. ]

 

Defn: Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.] Cowper. To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. Prof. Wilson. The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. Dickens.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

tedium

te di um |ˈtēdēəm ˈtidiəm | ▶noun the state of being tedious: cousins and uncles filled the tedium of winter nights with many a tall tale. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin taedium, from taedere ‘be weary of. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

tedium

te ¦dium |ˈtiːdɪəm | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the state or quality of being tedious: the tedium of car journeys. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin taedium, from taedere ‘be weary of ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

tedium

tedium noun 1 she loathed the tedium of housework: monotony, boredom, ennui, uniformity, routine, dreariness, dryness, banality, vapidity, insipidity. ANTONYMS variety. 2 I dozed off during the tedium of the third act: tedious passage, tedious moments, tedious period of time, flatness, longueur. WORD NOTE longueur I find myself using this word more often than I probably should, to describe those boring stretches of a novel or play during which your attention drifts, and you catch yourself wondering what's in the refrigerator, or if there's anything good on TV. The five-hundred word meditation on the author's dietary preferences certainly had its longueurs. I would probably use it even more frequently were it not so difficult to spell. What I like is how the sound of it suggests a combination of languor and length —the languor produced by something that is unduly long —though I have learned that its derivation has to do with length rather than lassitude. — FP Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

tedium

tedium noun to relieve the tedium of the days, they sang or told stories: monotony, monotonousness, tediousness, dullness, boredom, ennui, uneventfulness, lack of variety, lack of variation, lack of interest, lack of excitement, sameness, unchangingness, uniformity, routineness, humdrumness, dreariness, mundaneness, wearisomeness, tiresomeness, dryness, aridity, lifelessness, colourlessness, featurelessness, slowness, banality, vapidity, insipidity, blandness, prosaicness, jejuneness; long-windedness, prolixity, laboriousness, ponderousness, endlessness, interminableness; informal deadliness; Brit. informal sameyness. ANTONYMS variety, excitement.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

tedium

te di um /tíːdiəm /名詞 U 退屈なこと, 長たらしさ .