1
: the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness
also
: boredom
2
: a tedious period of time
Examples of tedium in a Sentence
The movie was three hours of tedium.
I took a day off to relieve the tedium of work.
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The tedium of day-to-day, real-life differences started to take some of the passion out of their relationship, with Elliot asking Kat to tidy up her clothes and showing more concern for the drenched wood floors than Kat’s big time-travel news.
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025
Everyone remembers the tedium of its Mako missions, and its morality system was still nascent in complexity.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Industry depended on impoverished workers with no other option but the tedium of mass manufacturing.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Many of these protagonists endure the tedium and humiliation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, losing days and years to paralyzing inertia, and experiencing terrifying delusions of persecution and betrayal.
—Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 27 Jan. 2025
Everyone remembers the tedium of its Mako missions, and its morality system was still nascent in complexity.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Industry depended on impoverished workers with no other option but the tedium of mass manufacturing.
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Many of these protagonists endure the tedium and humiliation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, losing days and years to paralyzing inertia, and experiencing terrifying delusions of persecution and betrayal.
—Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tedium
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“Tedium.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tedium. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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