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Meanings of tiresomeness in English

Portuguese
tédio
Catalan
tedi
Spanish
desgana

Dullness owing to length or slowness.

tédio
Synonyms
Examples for "tedium"
Examples for "tedium"
1
It served to relieve some of the tedium of that second year:
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
2
But I was spared soon the tedium and discomforts of the journey.
Barry Lyndon
3
It was his bright, dry, daily ordeal, his personal measure of tedium.
Revolutionary Road
4
Her life had much in it of laborious tedium-tediumnever-ending and monotonous.
The Old Wives' Tale
5
I have not your resources for beguiling the tedium of the way.
Try and Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy
1
I made them my companions, to relieve the tediousness of my journey.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and...
2
Her friends genuinely regretted her, and forgot the tediousness of her sciatica.
The Old Wives' Tale
3
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
Ponkapog Papers
4
So I thought I would come and bestow my tediousness on you.
Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
5
The only drawback to the trick is the tediousness of unwinding.
Healthful Sports for Boys
Usage of tiresomeness in English
1
He is sure to fall into the unpardonable sin of tiresomeness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 / A Magazi...
2
How heartily, my friend, I agree with you about the tiresomeness of balls.
Olivia in India
3
Probably, he bears it because he thinks her tiresomeness will soon be over.
A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 / A Novel
4
Everyone enjoys the pleasure of travel; but nearly all shrink back from its tiresomeness and drudgery.
Quiet Talks on Power
5
Instead of being a reality show ratings smash, it's a curdled cocktail of confusion and tiresomeness.
The Irish Times
6
Her letters and journal teem to tiresomeness with the refrain, "I feel myself extremely neglected for unborn generations."
Thomas Carlyle
7
It's just his tiresomeness.'
The History of David Grieve
8
Apart from its tiresomeness she did not even like it, and she would tell Lady Caroline not to order it again.
The Enchanted April
9
Mrs. Orr but stands as a type illustrating far too many mortally wearisome, social pretenders, prominent only through the tireless tiresomeness of their much speaking.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
10
Whatever Theresa's tiresomenesses, they were over and done with, surely, quite immensely long ago.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
11
Beside them was placed a hideous receptacle for-well, for anything-pins ,perhaps ,buttons ,smalltiresomenesses of that kind.
In the Wilderness
Translations for tiresomeness
Portuguese
tédio
Catalan
tedi
Tiresomeness through the time