(a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(2) Skin deepithelialization is an integral part of many reconstructive procedures, but it can be a tedious and time-consuming ordeal when using conventional techniques.
(3) The method provides an antibody reagent that is an attractive alternative to other more tedious means of producing oligospecific antibodies, including monoclonal antibodies, for screening of expression libraries.
(4) Richard Kemp, London SE8 I know I'm being tedious, but what are "American" novels?
(5) Almond lamb curry: Atul Kochhar This dish derives its main flavour from a spice blend called vadagam, which can be a little tedious to make.
(6) Its reliability and convenience represent an improvement over existing methods based on the tedious and time-consuming enzymatic radioisotopic determination of the carnitine formed or on the coupled decarboxylation of [1-14C]alpha-ketoglutarate, a method that cannot be used in crude extracts.
(7) Breathe deeply.” With the worryingly rapid rise of diagnoses in autism across the world over the past couple of decades comes another tedious phenomenon: the casual use of the word “autistic” to describe behaviour by people who, frankly, don’t know a lot about autism.
(8) One of the advantages of OK-432 therapy over lymphokine-activated killer cell therapy, therefore, is that the former does not require the tedious and time-consuming in vitro procedures which are essential for the latter.
(9) Fashion people don't mind being dismissed as "weird" – hell, "weird" is precisely what they're going for, because they're trying to show that they're different from you, you tedious River Island-shopping pleb.
(10) The workup for polyuria and polydipsia, especially in those cases with normal or near normal blood work, can be tedious, time consuming, confusing, and not without significant patient morbidity.
(11) The manual radiographic method is accurate both in normals and in patients with airways disease but is very tedious to use.
(12) These methods have several undesirable features; some are tedious and time-consuming, some remove antibody along with nonspecific inhibitors, and different techniques are usually required to remove the nonspecific inhibitors for different viruses.
(13) Austen Lynch Garstang, Lancashire • The government’s plan to turn all schools into academies suggests it has reached the same conclusion as Macbeth: “I am in blood stepped so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go over.” Steve Loveman Sheffield • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
(14) This avoids the tedious dissection involved in looking for small distal branches with their variable location.
(15) Today's techniques can produce ordered arrays of DNA fragments and overlapping sets of DNA clones covering extensive genomic regions, but they are relatively slow and tedious.
(16) Many of the spontaneous and in some cases leaderless Arab spring movements of 2011 were unsuited to taking on the tedious roles of political parties and constitutional lawyers.
(17) The technique was further simplified by using commercially available antibiotic-containing disks, thereby alleviating the tedious and time-consuming procedure of preparing the disks.
(18) A major obstacle in the application of quantitative microelectrophoresis has been tedious manipulations and calculations.
(19) The advantages of the titrimetric method include simplicity, rapidity, convenience, sensitivity, reproducibility and specificity, whereas the gravimetric method is tedious and time-consuming.
(20) Recording the required information may be tedious, but it can be carried out using either a paper-based system or its computerized equivalent.
Unreadable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Their activities, for the most part undocumented, have been forgotten or taken for granted, and notes, if written, remain unread.
(2) A toe-curling pause followed and Achebe's family looked on with unreadable expressions.
(3) The proportion of unreadable ultrasound results increased linearly with increase in skin thickness and the variance of ultrasound readings increased as inflammatory skin thickness increased; by contrast caliper variance remained constant.
(4) Lenin used to get cross with young Bolsheviks visiting him in exile, during the inter-revolutionary years between 1905 and 1917, when they teased him about Chernyshevsky’s book and told him it was unreadable.
(5) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
(6) In seven, very strong non-specific fluorescence made the result unreadable.
(7) Intelligence such as the Phoenix memo – which warned in July 2001 that terrorist suspects had been in flight schools and urgently requested further investigation – went unread.
(8) The most unreadable books I have read recently were Stephenie Meyer 's Twilight series.
(9) In this photograph, however, his face is an unreadable mask.
(10) The lawyer said Baluchi turned the book over to him, unread.
(11) Similarly, drawing on Henley Centre research, he says every home has a filter point — whether it is the kitchen table, or the bowl containing the keys by the front door, at which unsolicted material get stopped, and as such literature mounts in an election it remains increasingly unread.
(12) The clinical severity of those with unreadable roentgenograms was significantly greater.
(13) It is clear that we need to rethink law, entitlements and institutions around how we regulate information, without consenting to untold pages of unread, non-negotiable, we’ll-take-everything-but-your-firstborn-child terms and conditions.
(14) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
(15) And could we, maybe, identify some of those earlier, unreadable Bookers, to which Rimington and Mullin intend to be the corrective?
(16) A shelf with unread books Toby: Isn’t the future of libraries dependent on not having gatekeepers who are scary, on libraries not looking ancient, and not being about distant, old knowledge?
(17) Panicking that she may be discharged before engineering their reunion, she forcibly ruptures her wound to prolong her stay - a feat of self-harm almost unreadable for its violence, and ultimate futility.
(18) "A map that tries to answer every question for every person is effectively unreadable."
(19) However approximately 5% of the sera were positive by ELISA and the EIF test while the CF test result was either negative or unreadable because of serum anticomplementary activity.
(20) It is anyway increasingly clear that Lord Justice Leveson is aware that all previous proposals on press reform lie unread and unimplemented on the bottom shelf – just like the Calcutt report.