An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TEDIOUS
tedious, long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy
(adjective) using or containing too many words; “long-winded (or windy) speakers”; “verbose and ineffective instructional methods”; “newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials”; “proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes”
boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
(adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; “a boring evening with uninteresting people”; “the deadening effect of some routine tasks”; “a dull play”; “his competent but dull performance”; “a ho-hum speaker who couldn’t capture their attention”; “what an irksome task the writing of long letters is”- Edmund Burke; “tedious days on the train”; “the tiresome chirping of a cricket”- Mark Twain; “other people’s dreams are dreadfully wearisome”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tedious (comparative more tedious, superlative most tedious)
Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.
Synonym: Thesaurus:wearisome
Anagrams
• Outside, dies out, outside, side out, sudoite
Source: Wiktionary
Te"di*ous, a. Etym: [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See Tedium.]
Definition: Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
– Te"di*ous*ly, adv.
– Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.
Syn.
– Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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