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technique, n. 1. manner, method, way, means, wise, fashion, mode, style; system, approach, attack, procedure, course, tack, line; mode of operation, Latin, modus operandi, Inf. MO, manner of working; habit, custom, pattern, routine, order, standard operating procedure, Inf. SOP.
2. methodology, procedures, methods.
3. technical skill, apitude, ability, faculty, talent, gift, genius, endowment, facility; flair, bent, turn, knack, way, touch; skillfulness, dexterity, dex terousness, adroitness, address, deftness; qualifications, experience, knowledge, know-how; competence, competency, capableness, adeptness, proficiency, savoir-faire; mastery, expertness, expertise, efficiency, efficacy.
tedious, adj. dull, boring, boresome, tiresome, wearisome, wearying, tiring, wearing; long, lengthy, drawn out, dragged out, prolonged, long-drawn; long-winded, prolix, wordy, verbose, windy; monotonous, unvarying, unchanging, undeviating, repetitious, soporific, sleep-inducing; uneventful, humdrum, routine, uniform, all the same, unvaried, undiversified; tasteless, bland, insipid, jejune, flat, vapid, SI. blah; uninteresting, ho-hum, SI. dead, dry, dry-as-dust, unexciting, uninspiring, dreary, drab, Scot. and North Eng. dree; ponderous, heavy, weighty, burdensome, cumbersome.
tediousness, n. tedium, monotony, monotonousness, boredom, ennui, dullness, humdrum, stuffiness. See - tedium.
tedium, n. tediousness, monotony, monotonousness, routine, fixed routine, rut, groove, fixed schedule; lack of variety, changelessness, uniformity, sameness, selfsameness; repetition, iteration, reiteration, recurrence, redundancy; boredom, ennui, U.S. SI. the blahs, low spirits, doldrums, malaise; dullness, lack of excitement, uneventfulness, humdrum, stuffiness, wearisomeness; prosaicness, prosiness, triteness, platitudiousness, banality, ordinariness, commonness, commonplaceness; tastelessness, blandness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity, flatness, vapidity, vapidness; dryness, SI. deadness, drabness, dreariness.
teem1, v. Usu.
teem with abound, swarm or swarm with, pullulate, burst with, bristle with, be alive with, crawl with, be rife with; be stocked with, be full of, be filled or stuffed with, be crowded or overcrowded with, be jammed or packed with; overflow with, overspill with, brim or overbrim with, superabound with, exuberate with; be overun with or by, be overspread with or by, be overgrown with, be infested with; be prolific, be fertile, be productive, increase, multiply, proliferate.
teem2, v. empty or empty out, void, egest, Physiol. evacuate, clear out; pour out or forth, discharge, emit, eject, send forth or out, expel, excrete.
teeming, adj. 1. Usu.
teeming with abounding, swarming with, bursting with, bristling with, alive with, crawling with, SI. lousy with; stocked with, full or filled with, stuffed with, crowded or overcrowded with, jammed with, packed with; jam-packed, filled to the brim or hilt, Inf. filled to the gills, filled to overflowing; overflowing with, overspilling with, brimming or overbrimming with, superabounding with; overrun with, overspread with, overgrown with, infested with.
2. prolific, fertile, philoprogenitive, yielding, fruitful, fructuous, feracious; fecund, proliferative, proliferous; productive, generative, fructificative, fruitive, fruit-bearing, fructiferous; propagative, prop-agatory, propagational, multiplicative, regenerative; profuse, abundant, superabundant, plenteous, Rare. uberous; exuberant, luxurious, lush, rank, rife, rich,
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