tedious

adj

Etymology: English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).

1. Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.

   “But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.”

   “However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.”