different between bores vs bored

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??z/
• Homophone: boars

Noun

bores

1. plural of bore

Verb

bores

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bore

Anagrams

• Beros, Boers, Boser, Brose, Serbo-, Sober, brose, robes, sober

Middle English

Etymology 1

From bore +? -es.

Noun

bores

1. plural of bore

Etymology 2

From bor +? -es.

Noun

bores

1. plural of bor

English

Etymology

bore +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key): /bo(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophone: board; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

bored

1. simple past tense and past participle of bore

Adjective

bored (comparative more bored, superlative most bored)

1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

   The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.

2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

Translations

Derived terms

• be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
• boredly
• boredness
• unbored

(Expressions):

• bored out of one's brains
• bored out of one's mind
• bored out of one's tree
• bored stiff
• bored to tears

Related terms

• bore, bore out
• boredom
• boring
• unbore

See also

• ennui
• ennuyé

Anagrams

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed