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Tedious vs. Mundane — What's the Difference?

Tedious vs. Mundane — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tedious and Mundane

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Tedious

Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous
A tedious journey

Mundane

In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. The term first came into use in science fiction fandom to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.

Tedious

Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.

Mundane

Lacking interest or excitement; dull
His mundane, humdrum existence

Tedious

(Obsolete) Moving or progressing very slowly.
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Mundane

Of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one
According to the Shinto doctrine, spirits of the dead can act upon the mundane world

Tedious

Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.

Mundane

Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.

Tedious

Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
I would not be tedious to the court.

Mundane

Relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary.

Tedious

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
Tedious days on the train
The tiresome chirping of a cricket
Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome

Mundane

Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

Tedious

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

Mundane

Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.

Mundane

Ordinary; not new.

Mundane

Tedious; repetitive and boring.

Mundane

An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

Mundane

A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

Mundane

A person who is not a Satanist.

Mundane

The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

Mundane

Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns.
The defilement of mundane passions.

Mundane

Commonplace; ordinary; banal.

Mundane

Found in the ordinary course of events;
A placid everyday scene
It was a routine day
There's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Mundane

Concerned with the world or worldly matters;
Mundane affairs
He developed an immense terrestrial practicality

Mundane

Belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;
Not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind
So terrene a being as himself

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