different between irritating vs bored

English

Adjective

irritating (comparative more irritating, superlative most irritating)

1. Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
2. Stimulating or exciting a response.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:annoying

Derived terms

• nonirritating

Translations

Verb

irritating

1. present participle of irritate

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