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English

Etymology

From bore +? -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.d?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??.d?m/

Noun

boredom (usually uncountable, plural boredoms)

1. (uncountable) The state of being bored.
   • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XII

     […] only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.

2. (countable) An instance or period of being bored; A bored state.
   • 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107,

     If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.

   • See more citations at boredoms.

Synonyms

• (state of being bored): ennui

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boring

Translations

See also

• accidie
• acedia
• ennui

Anagrams

• bed-room, bedroom, broomed

English

Etymology

From Middle English boryng (“making a hole”); equivalent to bore +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?????/
• Rhymes: -?????

Noun

boring (plural borings)

1. A pit or hole which has been bored.
   • 1992, J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications, p. 191:

     It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.

2. Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
3. Any organism that bores into a hard surface

Verb

boring

1. present participle of bore

Derived terms

• tunnel boring machine

Adjective

boring (comparative more boring, superlative most boring)

1. Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient.

   What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.

2. Used, or designed to be used, to drill holes.

   boring equipment

3. Capable of penetrating; piercing.

Synonyms

• dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious
• See also Thesaurus:boring

Derived terms

• boringly
• boringness

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boredom

Translations

Anagrams

• orbing, robing

Danish

Etymology

From the verb bore (“drill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?o???e?]

Noun

boring c (singular definite boringen, plural indefinite boringer)

1. drill hole
2. drilling

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From boren +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?.r??/
• (Belgium)
• Hyphenation: bo?ring
• Rhymes: -o?r??

Noun

boring f (plural boringen, diminutive borinkje n)

1. drilling

   offshoreboring — offshore drilling

2. bore of a car's cylinder or canon