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boredom
English
Etymology
From bore +? -dom.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??.d?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??.d?m/
Noun
boredom (usually uncountable, plural boredoms)
- (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.
- 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XII
- (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.
- 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker (translators), The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107,
Synonyms
- (state of being bored): ennui
Related terms
- bore
- bored
- boring
Translations
See also
- accidie
- acedia
- ennui
Anagrams
- bed-room, bedroom, broomed
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unbore
English
Etymology
un- +? bore
Verb
unbore (third-person singular simple present unbores, present participle unboring, simple past and past participle unbored)
- (transitive) To relieve from boredom.
- 1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens
- Let you tell her from me and from us, that there is a chapter in Deirdre that unbores God when He gets bored, & remembers who He ought to read.
- 1974, James Stephens, Richard J. Finneran, Letters of James Stephens
Anagrams
- Bourne, bourne, unrobe
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