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tedium 音标拼音: [t'idiəm]
n. 冗长乏味,单调 冗长乏味,单调 tedium n 1: the feeling of being bored by something tedious [ synonym: { boredom}, { ennui}, { tedium}] 2: dullness owing to length or slowness [ synonym: { tediousness}, { tedium}, { tiresomeness}] Tedium \ Te" di* um\, n. [ L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [ Written also { taedium}.] -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. -- Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster] The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. -- Dickens. [ 1913 Webster] 77 Moby Thesaurus words for " tedium": 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
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