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Definition of tedium:

  • (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  • (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness

Sentence Examples:

Too frequently had eaten each other into fragments during the tedium of a day's confinement.

Just to help herself endure the tedium of eternal rehearsal, Isabelle invented an absorbing game.

These were sufficiently easy duties, with no greater drawback than a certain amount of tedium.

I will not enlarge here upon the tedium and difficulties such an undertaking would present.

Among the recreations which relieved the tedium of garrison life, was an occasional wolf chase.

He will not tolerate the stagnation and tedium of a dull uniformity by mechanical reproduction.

There is cheap entertainment, the inexpensive tedium of the cinema and the use of a theater.

These little domestic emotions will rescue her from the tedium which is her greatest torment.

It had novelty; it promised strange spectacular effects calculated to relieve the tedium of prison life.

Polo became impossible, and neither officers nor men had anything to relieve the tedium of waiting.

Many have been the expedients I have adopted, to relieve the oppressive tedium of my miserable days.

Then lifting out to space for long periods of tedium, to repeat the process somewhere else.

Morton relieved the tedium of waiting by hunting and fishing, for his proper duties were slight.

What is to be guarded against is the notion that tedium is inseparable from the scientific method.

In both cases the sentiment arose from the desire to escape from the tedium of an artificial life.

I suppose I began talking about my affairs, like a fool, to relieve the tedium of his illness.

However, it may be done, more especially where there is the tedium of a siege to while away.

He does not fear the tedium of repetition, nor the accusation of moving in a narrow round of ideas.

There was, at any rate, no tedium felt in listening to Mr Slope on the occasion in question.

Of the rest of his life he remembered little; a void of tedium broken only by monetary worries.

I have been quite right in not reckoning on his company to charm away the tedium of the journey.

Then the lifting out to space for long periods of tedium, to repeat the process somewhere else.

Priscilla, released from the tedium of the breakfast table, sped down the long avenue on her bicycle.

With the remembrance of it came, however, the memory of the intolerable tedium of his visit there.

Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

I should prefer doing without things to the worry and tedium of the process of buying them.

I repeat these facts, even at the risk of tedium, because it is essential to have them clearly apprehended.

If this existence were only prolonged, there would be sufficient tedium in it to kill him with consumption.

It is a rare example of a bibliography written in a descriptive style that relieves the tedium of a list.

It is the enormous stupidity of the mass that is pathetic, and its secret tedium that is desolating.

It is a world full of tedium and delight; pleasure and curiosity, of extravagant laughter, poetry, and splendor.

Lastly, above all, endeavor to prevent the choir feeling any tedium, for this is the principal point.

The visits she received from her friends and illustrious foreigners somewhat relieved the tedium of her life.

It probably droned on in its unaware and insignificant tedium through the years, but it had its connections.

This attachment, together with the firm possession of Keith, helped to tide Flossie over the tedium of waiting.

At the cost of some unavoidable tedium, the argument as regards these and similar instances may be summarized.

"I don't think that would improve matters," said the secretary, glad of a discussion to relieve the tedium.

There is an element of appeal in it, reminding one of a child who can bear the tedium no longer.

Whoever walks there for pleasure must take a good stock of impressions with him, in order to escape tedium.

All of her was dead save the ability to keep on driving, forever, with no hope of the tedium ending.

Still, just as death is the beginning of life, so at times tedium can become a spring of vigorous action.

I worked hard at that time, and it was the period during which I suffered least from tedium.

And so the months rolled by, with a trip abroad now and then to relieve the tedium of existence.

You will find no tedium of repetition in all their poetry, no thin vein of thought beaten out over endless pages.

There was nothing to alleviate the tedium of his imprisonment: no newspapers, no books, nothing to occupy his mind.

They hailed with joy the first glimpse of the New World after the terrible tedium of the voyage.

They have shrunk from all pain and effort and tedium, like a child that does not like his lessons.

I felt a thrill of joy and satisfaction, which fully compensated me for all the tedium of the evening.

He gives him an account of the journey, which speaks much for the tedium of travelling in those days.

I very gladly took refuge from the tedium of the crowd in conversation with a man of so original a character.

Fortunately there is plenty of stirring action to offset the tedium (to boys and girls) of laws and parliaments.

There will undoubtedly be a variety, too, in heavenly employment, corresponding with our varying states, and making tedium impossible.

They are truly a wild enough looking company, and helped not a little to relieve the tedium of the passage.

What in this case had been done in despair might also be done to put an end to the tedium of existence.

Do not be deterred; I think it necessary that you should submit to some trouble and tedium for the purpose.

That sleep is not at the command of will is certain, or why undergo the tedium of a restless night?

She did not feel the tedium of wealth; on the contrary, she often took an almost childish pleasure in it.

In order to reduce the tedium of his restricted life, he set himself various puzzles, and this is one of them.

The tedium that follows is most distressing, and can only be explained as the author's revenge for your laughter.

Escaped from their tedium and restored for a brief space of social intercourse, they seemed possessed by feverish excitement.

They were all impatient of the senseless tedium, of the costly interruption, being men with real work to do.

Everything that wealth and loving care could secure was provided by Bruce to lessen the tedium of the journey.

These were the pleasanter aspects of his business life which did not lack as well its tedium and crosses.

She charmed the tedium of the voyage in hourly watching the progress which she believed visible in the feeble offset.

If you are good enough to march quietly with me, I shall relieve the tedium of the way by an occasional contribution.

There was tedium, rather, in the possession of bodies as durable as metal, as renewable as wax, as insensitive as water.

Four of them out of twelve volunteered to assist in working the ship rather than submit to the tedium of imprisonment.

The husband finds himself divided between his sympathetic sense of tedium and the proprietary tradition in which we live.

Idleness is the friend of love; and passengers have little or nothing to do to while away the tedium of a voyage.

As to fishing, he was almost equally violent, grounding his objection on the tedium and cruelty incident to the pursuit.

No more insurances, however, being accepted, the visits which had so often relieved the tedium of official routine ceased to be paid.

Another way of putting it is that they would like all the advantages of contrast without the disadvantages of tedium.

Of more importance than the money they earned, was the relief to the tedium of their life in the work itself.

Still, their own efforts to make their stay in support comfortable, helped a little to relieve the tedium of the time.

Friends, however, soon gathered about her, and by their hospitality and little kindnesses, relieved the tedium of the weary days.

One great advantage of this process, is an avoidance of the immense tedium of washing the precipitates obtained in the ordinary processes.

By so doing, the tedium of the task to the child will be considerably lessened, as well as much knowledge attained.

Such a method was not, however, popular as there was no alternative but work to relieve the tedium of such imprisonment.

The sleep lasted for a couple of hours, during which Gammon sat in the room, bearing tedium as best he could.

I hesitate to enlarge upon this part of my subject lest I be inflicting upon the reader the tedium of a thrice-told tale.

She could put up with any amount of tedium if only the fair chance of obtaining ultimate relief were not denied to her.

A blessed revelation it is to every life when the joy of play robs the working hours of their tedium and weariness.

While still young the tedium of society led him into retirement, from which a taste for independence afterwards withdrew him.

His desire for community life was caused by his decided dislike of the world, of fuss and tedium and conventional occupations.

At the college agency, they telephoned for two applicants, and after what seemed to Wally a week of tedium, they arrived.

It is the only way in which I can relieve the tedium of the dull, weary hours I am condemned to pass alone.

In the early days of April the tedium of winter quarters was relieved by the good news of Grant's successes before Petersburg.

A dozen plans were started at the tea for relieving the tedium of the daily drives and the regulation teas and receptions.

He relieved the tedium of the journey with speculations on what sort of thing it was she was thinking about, going over.

Shortly after nightfall, when she heard his heavy tread on the porch below, the tedium of the day instantly vanished.

On the moment depression vanished, for I felt certain that she would devise some means to relieve the tedium of my confinement.

Still others were bound volumes of old magazines designed no doubt to relieve the tedium of the nights of the Arctic winter.

After a time he was conscious that the captain was growling a bit of a song to relieve the tedium of his task.

It was that the tedium might grow too great, and the men yield to the temptations of drink, gambling and vice.

To relieve the tedium of the dull hours he went off in the afternoon to do a little ratting on his own account.

They carry you through the tedium of things, and hold you in velvet and silk against the petty jolts and jars.

He had no other reason to deny such favor, but the tedium of listening to what could profit neither him nor others.

Servants constantly endure the tedium of waiting and attendance, but it is their form of work, and they have freely undertaken it.

He always preferred to do the waiting himself if he could spare the time, and he usually found something to avert tedium.

To see how the girl sprang from her seat was a proof of the gentle tedium that had stolen upon her soul.