tediousness

  • 101ǽlengnes — f ( se/ sa) tediousness …

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  • 102ǽþryt — 1. adj troublesome, wearisome, tedious, disgusting; 2. n ( es/ u?) weariness, disgust, tediousness …

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  • 103patience — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. leniency, tolerance; perseverance, persistence; forbearance, long suffering, submission, endurance; solitaire. See inexcitability, resignation.Ant., impatience. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Willingness to …

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  • 104verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …

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  • 105weariness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Exhaustion Nouns 1. weariness, tiredness, exhaustion, lethargy, lassitude, fatigue; drowsiness, languor, languidness; weakness, faintness. Slang, rack attack, three o clock syndrome. See dejection,… …

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  • 106dullness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Quality of being boring] Syn. flatness, sameness, routine, uninterestingness, aridity, dryness, depression, dimness, drabness, tediousness, commonplaceness, mediocrity, tedium, monotony, deadliness, dreariness, insipidity,… …

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  • 107entertainment — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of amusing] Syn. amusement, diversion, recreation, fun, enjoyment, merriment, divertissement (French), pleasure, delight, cheer, sport, play, frolic, pastime, revelry, merrymaking, relaxation, distraction, escape,… …

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  • 108monotony — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. invariability, likeness, sameness, tediousness, similarity, continuity, continuance, oneness, identicalness, evenness, levelness, flatness, dreariness, unchangeableness, equability, boredom; jog trot*, even tenor*, the same …

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  • 109relieve — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To replace] Syn. release, remove, take over for, cover for, spell*, discharge, force to resign; see also dismiss 1 , 2 , substitute 2 . 2. [To lessen] Syn. assuage, alleviate, soothe, comfort, allay, lighten, mitigate, ease …

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  • 110tedium — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. boredom, tediousness, dullness; see monotony . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. boredom, monotony, ennui, dullness, sameness, routine, rut, repetitiousness, flatness, deadness. ANT.: excitement, stimulation …

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