TEDIUMS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

tedium

noun

ˈtē-dē-əm

Definition of tedium next

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 Most scenes are shot from a fixed camera position, which can accentuate the level of tedium when there’s not much happening. —

Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026 Enthusiasm aside, the tedium of those first few weeks was tough. —

Erica Sloan, SELF, 4 Dec. 2025 Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs of exquisitely tense tedium. —

Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025 The resort’s Western hospitality is legendary, saving guests the hassle of planning and the tedium of ski lift lines. —

Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tedium

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boredom

Noun

Many refugees came to her complaining of the headaches and sores and bodily pains that come from extreme stress and extreme boredom, of bedding on cold floors and being awoken through the night by explosions.

— James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
Happily, in his aptly peculiar film, docmaker Xander Robin downplays the boredom in favor of the adrenalin, and even more compellingly, of the Challenge’s diverse but uniformly eccentric sociological makeup.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 May 2026