TEDIUM Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

tedium

noun

ˈtē-dē-əm

Definition of tedium

as in boredom

the state of being bored the tedium of spending a rainy afternoon trapped inside the house

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Recent Examples of tedium The tedium of the task was how the apprentice became the master. — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 Sea Rangers offer a Swiss Army knife’s dexterity, pursuing government contracts across the European Union and United Kingdom to tackle the tedium of climate compliance and the drudgery of clearing those backlogs. — Richard Morgan, Time, 29 June 2026 The art of roster architecture has been replaced by the tedium of money management in many cases. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 June 2026 Along the way, Lee is attentive to the roles of mental illness and gender in Woolf’s genius, and proves that a doorstop biography doesn’t have to be an exercise in tedium. — Nicholas Boggs, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tedium

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boredom

Noun

Take us to that moment, this middle-age malaise, this boredom.

— Longreads, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2026
Her boredom was sharpened by the discovery that most of her initial assumptions were wrong.

— Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

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tediousness

tedium

teed off

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