Tedium

Noun

 * 1) boredom or tediousness; ennui

Synonyms

 * boredom, drudgery, ennui, tediousness

Related terms

 * tedious

Verbs for Tedium
allay—; chafe at—; decry—; disperse—; divert from—; ease—; relieve—; revolt at —; —assails; —beguiles; —bores; —burdens; —disintegrates; —exhausts; —fags; —fatigues; —harasses; —irks; —jades; — overwhelms; —prostrates; —sours; —stagnates; —strains; —taxes; —vexes; — wearies; —weighs upon.

Thesaurus
alliteration, angst, anguish, anxiety, assonance, banality, boredom, changelessness, cheerlessness, chime, colorlessness, dingdong, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, doldrums, drabness, dread, dreariness, drone, dullness, emptiness, ennui, existential woe, flatness, grimness, harping, humdrum, inquietude, insipidity, insipidness, invariability, irksomeness, jingle, jingle-jangle, joylessness, lack of pleasure, long-windedness, malaise, monotone, monotony, nausea, near rhyme, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, painfulness, pitter-patter, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, routine, savorlessness, singsong, slant rhyme, spleen, stale repetition, staleness, tastelessness, tediousness, tiresomeness, trot, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unnecessary repetition, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vapidity, vexation of spirit, wearisomeness, yawn

Alternative forms

 * tædium

Etymology
taedium:, from taedere:.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ikävystyttävyys, tylsyys


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