different between displeased vs bored

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?pli?zd/
• Hyphenation: dis?pleased

Adjective

displeased (comparative more displeased, superlative most displeased)

1. Not pleased or happy with something.

Translations

Verb

displeased

1. simple past tense and past participle of displease

References

• “displeased”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• speed dials, speed-dials

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