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Tedious

/tˈidiəs/
B2
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(adj) Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.

The long wait at the airport was tedious.
The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Copying all the data into the new spreadsheet was a very ____ and boring job that took me the whole morning today.

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