tédio
Portuguese, noun
tédio is spelled T-É-D-I-O (5 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 14,792nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tédio is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “boredom; tedium (state of being bored)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tedio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desgosto profundo, que faz que se olhe com repugnância as pessoas, as coisas ou os fatos”.
What does tédio mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineboredom; tedium (state of being bored)
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tédio
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desgosto profundo, que faz que se olhe com repugnância as pessoas, as coisas ou os fatos 2. aborrecimento, desgosto, enfado, fastio
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tédio
- tedio alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tédio
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tédio in Portuguese?
tédio appears 3.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).