Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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Boredom
//ˈbɔɹ.dəm//
Synonyms for "boredom" (124 found)
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Related words (62)
languorousnesslassitudelenitudelentorlethargylife-wearinesslifelessnesslistlessnessmalaisemelancholymonotonynauseanongratificationnonsatisfactionoscitancypainfulnesspassivityphlegmregardlessnesssatedness
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2 entriescapable of
1 entriescauses desire
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7 entriesTranslations
99 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mërzitje noun (state of being bored)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀνία noun (state of being bored)
Arabic
4 entries- زَهَق noun (state of being bored)
- ضَجَر noun (state of being bored)
- طَفَش noun (state of being bored)
- مَلَل noun (state of being bored)
Armenian
1 entries- ձանձրույթ noun (state of being bored)
Basque
1 entries- asperraldi noun (state of being bored)
Belarusian
2 entries- нуда́ noun (state of being bored)
- нудо́та noun (state of being bored)
Bikol Central
1 entries- pagkalangkag noun (state of being bored)
Bulgarian
2 entries- доса́да noun (state of being bored)
- ску́ка noun (state of being bored)
Catalan
3 entries- avorriment noun (state of being bored)
- fastig noun (state of being bored)
- tedi noun (state of being bored)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- بێزاری noun (state of being bored)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 乏味 noun (state of being bored)
- 無聊 /无聊 noun (state of being bored)
- 無趣 /无趣 noun (state of being bored)
Czech
1 entries- nuda noun (state of being bored)
Danish
1 entries- kedsomhed noun (state of being bored)
Dutch
1 entries- verveling noun (state of being bored)
Esperanto
2 entries- enuo noun (state of being bored)
- spleno noun (state of being bored)
Estonian
2 entries- igavus noun (state of being bored)
- tüdimus noun (state of being bored)
Finnish
2 entries- ikävystyminen noun (state of being bored)
- tylsyys noun (state of being bored)
French
1 entries- ennui noun (state of being bored)
Galician
1 entries- aburrimento noun (state of being bored)
Georgian
1 entries- მოწყენილობა noun (state of being bored)
German
1 entries- Langeweile noun (state of being bored)
Greek
3 entries- ανία noun (state of being bored)
- βαρεμάρα noun (state of being bored)
- πλήξη noun (state of being bored)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׁעְמוּם noun (state of being bored)
Hindi
2 entries- ऊब noun (state of being bored)
- बोरियत noun (state of being bored)
Hungarian
1 entries- unalom noun (state of being bored)
Italian
2 entries- noia noun (state of being bored)
- tedio noun (state of being bored)
Japanese
1 entries- 退屈 noun (state of being bored)
Khmer
1 entries- អផ្សុក noun (state of being bored)
Korean
2 entries- 갑갑증 noun (state of being bored)
- 지루함 noun (state of being bored)
Latin
1 entries- taedium noun (state of being bored)
Latvian
2 entries- garlaicība noun (state of being bored)
- garlaiks noun (state of being bored)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nuobodulys noun (state of being bored)
Macedonian
1 entries- досада noun (state of being bored)
Malay
1 entries- bosan noun (state of being bored)
Marathi
1 entries- कंटाळा noun (state of being bored)
Māori
1 entries- takeo noun (state of being bored)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kjedsomhet noun (state of being bored)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- keisemd noun (state of being bored)
Persian
2 entries- ملالت noun (state of being bored)
- کسالت noun (state of being bored)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Lankwiel noun (state of being bored)
Polish
4 entries- nuda noun (state of being bored)
- nudność noun (state of being bored)
- nudota noun (state of being bored)
- znudzenie noun (state of being bored)
Portuguese
4 entries- aborrecimento noun (state of being bored)
- enfado noun (state of being bored)
- fastio noun (state of being bored)
- tédio noun (state of being bored)
Romanian
1 entries- plictiseală noun (state of being bored)
Russian
1 entries- ску́ка noun (state of being bored)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dȍsada noun (state of being bored)
- до̏сада noun (state of being bored)
Slovak
1 entries- nuda noun (state of being bored)
Slovene
1 entries- dolgčas noun (state of being bored)
Spanish
4 entries- aburrimiento noun (state of being bored)
- embole noun (state of being bored)
- hastío noun (state of being bored)
- muermo noun (state of being bored)
Swedish
2 entries- tristess noun (state of being bored)
- uttråkning noun (state of being bored)
Tajik
2 entries- дилтангӣ noun (state of being bored)
- малолат noun (state of being bored)
Thai
2 entries- ความเบื่อ noun (state of being bored)
- ความเบื่อหน่าย noun (state of being bored)
Turkish
4 entries- bunaltı noun (state of being bored)
- can sıkıntısı noun (state of being bored)
- melal noun (state of being bored)
- usantı noun (state of being bored)
Ukrainian
4 entries- нуда́ noun (state of being bored)
- нудо́та noun (state of being bored)
- нудьга́ noun (state of being bored)
- ску́ка noun (state of being bored)
Urdu
1 entries- بوریت noun (state of being bored)
Uzbek
1 entries- zerikish noun (state of being bored)
Vietnamese
2 entries- nỗi buồn chán noun (state of being bored)
- nỗi buồn tẻ noun (state of being bored)
Sample sentences
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It was boredom that Aldous Huxley considered one of the most dangerous human conditions.
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I am no match for boredom.
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I distracted myself from the boredom of my long journey by reading mysteries.
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