🍞 A bread slice 😴 A long speech

tartine

9.5

A long boring piece of writing or speech that repeats the same points

noun
/tɑrˈtin/

: discurso tedioso

Her speech became a tartine when she repeated the same points over and over.

Examples

I struggled to finish his email because it was just a tartine about minor details.
The professor's lecture turned into a tartine that left the students bored and restless.
His report was just a long tartine about his weekend.
Can you believe her tartine lasted over an hour?
The professor's lecture turned into a tartine that left the students bored and restless.
I struggled to finish his email because it was just a tartine about minor details.
Her speech became a tartine when she repeated the same points over and over.

Synonyms

rambling

vstartine

33 5.5

Long confused speech or writing that is hard to follow

focuses on tedious repetition and detail rather than disorganized flow

screed

vstartine

Literature

7 9.5

A long angry piece of writing or speech that criticizes something

is informal and repeats details rather than aiming to criticize

Antonyms

summary

397 2.7

A short statement giving the main points without details

How Tedious

tome

Formal

22 8.4

tartine

9.5

article

Literature

∞ 1.0

note

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

tartine singular

tartines plural

Etymology

Tartine is also used informally to mean 'a long, boring piece of writing or speech'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to picture a very long slice of bread covered in words, so a 'tartine' can be a text that just goes on and on.