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Definition: Tediously |
TediouslyAdverb1. In a tedious manner; "boringly slow work"; "he plodded tediously forward". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tediously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: TediouslySynonyms: boringly (adv), tiresomely (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tediously |
| English words defined with "tediously": boringly ♦ dragging, drawn-out ♦ extended ♦ humdrum ♦ lengthy ♦ monotonous ♦ prolix, prolonged, Proser, protracted ♦ tiresomely, To wear out. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
James Boswell | I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Tediously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tediously" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tediously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 繁琐地. (various references) | |
German | langweilige. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | くつくつ法師 (approximately, around, bending loosely back and forth, brood over, dizziness, giddiness, Kutsukutsu-boushi semi, like a small spinning object, making something, meandering, mope, repetitively, round, to bend loosely back and forth, type of cicada, worry about, wriggling body). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くどくど (repetitively). (various references) | |
Korean | 지루하게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ediouslytay.(various references) | |
Romanian | plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tedious, tiresome, trying, weary). (various references) | |
Russian | утомительно (tiresomely, wearily, wearisomely). (various references) | |
Spanish | tediosamente. (various references) | |
Thai | อย่างน่าเบื่อหน่าย. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tediously" (pronounced tē"dēuslē) |
| 6 | -d ē u s l ē | hideously, studiously. |
| 5 | -ē u s l ē | contemporaneously, curiously, laboriously, enviously, erroneously, furiously, gloriously, harmoniously, hilariously, instantaneously, mysteriously, notoriously, obviously, precariously, previously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, jealously, judiciously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, generously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, hellaciously, helplessly, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, intravenously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, nervously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precipitously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, strenuously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unconsciously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outyields. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-o-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: outyield, sedulity, solitude, toluides. | |
-2 letters: dilutes, doylies, duelist, dustily, loudest, outlies, outside, styloid, tedious, toluide, toluids, tousled. | |
-3 letters: delist, dilute, duties, idlest, listed, louies, loused, louted, lusted, odyles, oldest, oldies, ousted, outlie, siloed, silted, soiled, solute, souled, stoled, stolid, studio, studly, styled, suited, tildes, todies, toiled, toiles, toluid, toused, tousle, yields, yodels, yodles. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-o-s-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: desultorily, dissolutely, seditiously. | |
+3 letters: despiteously. | |
+4 letters: deleteriously, expeditiously, subordinately, tendentiously. | |
+5 letters: adventitiously, ambidextrously, dicotyledonous, discourteously, polybutadienes, polyneuritides. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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