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Tediously

Definition: Tediously

Tediously

Adverb

1. 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: Tediously

Synonyms: boringly (adv), tiresomely (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tediously

English words defined with "tediously": boringlydragging, drawn-outextendedhumdrumlengthymonotonousprolix, prolonged, Proser, protractedtiresomely, To wear out. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Tediously

AuthorQuotation

James Boswell

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Tediously

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1980,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tediously

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.

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Rhyming with "Tediously"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tediously" (pronounced tē"dēuslē)
6-d ē u s l ēhideously, studiously.
5-ē u s l ēcontemporaneously, curiously, laboriously, enviously, erroneously, furiously, gloriously, harmoniously, hilariously, instantaneously, mysteriously, notoriously, obviously, precariously, previously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, unceremoniously, variously, vicariously.
4-u s l ēaimlessly, 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 ēadversely, 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.

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Anagrams: Tediously

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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