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'Tiresome' The Immortal Bard (Shakespeare) was right when he penned the lines ' If it were to sport all day, it would be as tedious as to work'. 'Sport' in Shakespearean terms means to do nothing, relax. NOT athletic sports.
The suffix for tedious is -ous.
Waxing the car is a tedious task.
Tedious has three syllables: te-di-ous
Because the teacher droned on and on, his students found listening to be tedious. Answering such questions may be tedious to some people, but not to me. The sailors found life on a cargo ship to be tedious and boring.
Cleaning the grooves in the tile was tedious work. My teacher gave me the tedious job of looking for every comma in my essay.
Tedious has three syllables: te-di-ous
It is dialect spelling of the word tedious, as you suspected.
An antonym for tedious (dull, repetitive, boring) could be exciting, challenging, interesting, or fascinating.
It was a tedious job sorting all the tiny beads by color. Exam says at school are so tedious that I cannot wait until the final bell rings.
Hideous
No it means if something is tedious then it is extremely boring, a trial to get through, ect. Eg. Twilight