The tedium of driving across the desert makes it difficult to continuously pay attention, leading to a real danger of accidentally running off the road or crashing.
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Tedium
Synonyms for "tedium" (95 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (47)
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1 entriescauses desire
2 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
33 translations across 21 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀνία noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Bulgarian
2 entries- досада noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- скука noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Czech
1 entries- znuděnost noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Dutch
1 entries- verveling noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Finnish
2 entries- ikävystyttävyys noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- tylsyys noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
French
2 entries- ennui noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- fatigue noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Galician
2 entries- fastío noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- tedio noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
German
1 entries- Langeweile noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Greek
1 entries- ανία noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Ido
1 entries- tedo noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Irish
1 entries- leadrán noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Latin
1 entries- taedium noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Latvian
2 entries- garlaicība noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- garlaiks noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Māori
1 entries- takeotanga noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Lankwiel noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Polish
1 entries- nuda noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Portuguese
4 entries- aborrecimento noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- enfado noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- fastio noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- tédio noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Romanian
3 entries- anosteală noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- plictiseală noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- urât noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Russian
1 entries- ску́ка noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Spanish
1 entries- tedio noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Turkish
3 entries- bezginlik noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- usantı noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
- usanç noun (boredom or tediousness; ennui)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
I found myself reaching for my phone to alleviate the tedium of being lectured at.
Source: tatoeba (11034672)
Tom and Mary went skinny-dipping in the river to break up the tedium of everyday life.
Source: tatoeba (11036087)
Railroad rides are naturally tiresome to persons who cannot read on the cars, and, being one of those unfortunates, I resigned myself, on taking my seat in the train, to several hours of tedium, alleviated only by such cat-naps as I might achieve.
Source: tatoeba (12192366)
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