Boring

//ˈbɔː.ɹɪŋ//

Synonyms for "boring" (145 found)

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Closest matches (29)

dull acupunctuation acupuncture arid bore boresome broach colorless dead deadening deadly drab dreary drill hole drilling drudging

Adjective(10 words)

banal beat blah bland bored cold colourless drab dreich drowsy

Noun(2 words)

chip drilling

Adjective(1 words)

deadening

Strong matches (44)

dry empiercement exhausting fatiguing fixing flat goring gray grey heavy humdrum impalement irksome lacklustre lancing lengthy literal long-drawn-out matter-of-fact monotonous

Adjective(20 words)

dull dull as dishwater flat heavy going ho-hum humdrum insipid lackluster lame languid lifeless long longsome mind-numbing monochromatic monotonous mundane no fun at parties pedantic pedestrian

Adjective(3 words)

dull ho-hum irksome

Noun(1 words)

oil production

Related words (72)

Related word relations

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14 relation types

More general

6 entries

creating by removal familiar machining moving normal production

More specific

1 entries

wearisome

Synonyms

3 entries

deadening drilling dull

Related terms

4 entries

bore bored boredom common

at location

1 entries

meeting

causes

1 entries

suicide

causes desire

1 entries

play cards

coordinate

10 entries

;broaching drilling grinding milling planing reaming sawdust shaping turning[OD

derived

10 entries

Boring Billion boring as beans boringly boringness macroboring microboring nonboring tunnel boring machine unboring wood-boring

derived from

1 entries

bore

form of

1 entries

bore

is a

2 entries

event production

related to

7 entries

bore bored boredom hole interest organism pit

similar

1 entries

uninteresting

Translations

111 translations across 56 languages.

Arabic

2 entries

مُضْجِر adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
مُمِلّ adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Armenian

1 entries

ձանձրալի adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

cansıxıcı adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
darıxdırıcı adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Basque

1 entries

aspergarri adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Belarusian

1 entries

абры́длівы adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Bulgarian

2 entries

доса́ден adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
ску́чен adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Catalan

1 entries

avorrit adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

乏味 adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
沒勁 /没劲 adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
無聊 /无聊 adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Cornish

1 entries

skwithus adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Czech

1 entries

nudný adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Danish

1 entries

kedelig adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Dutch

1 entries

saai adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Esperanto

3 entries

enua adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
enuiga adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
teda adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Faroese

2 entries

keðiligur adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
leiðiligur adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Finnish

2 entries

ikävystyttävä adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
tylsä adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

French

4 entries

barbant adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
ennuyant adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
ennuyeux adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
alésage noun (A pit or hole which has been bored.)

Galician

2 entries

aburrido adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
pesado adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Georgian

2 entries

მოსაბეზრებელი adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
მოსაწყენი adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

German

1 entries

langweilig adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Greek

3 entries

ανιαρός adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
βαρετός adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
πληκτικός adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Greenlandic

1 entries

qasunarpoq adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Hebrew

1 entries

משעמם adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Hungarian

1 entries

unalmas adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Icelandic

1 entries

leiðinlegur adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Ido

2 entries

enoyiganta adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
enoyigiva adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Irish

1 entries

leadránach adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Italian

4 entries

barboso adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
noioso adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
palloso adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
palloso adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Japanese

3 entries

うんざりさせた adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
つまらない adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
退屈な adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Korean

3 entries

무료하다 adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
재미없다 adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
지루하다 adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Latin

1 entries

taediōsus adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Lithuanian

1 entries

nuobodus adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

langweileg adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Malagasy

1 entries

mankaleo adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Malay

1 entries

bosan adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Marathi

3 entries

कंटाळवाणा adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
कंटाळवाणी adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
कंटाळवाणे adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Māori

4 entries

hōhā adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
mākihakiha adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
pāngū adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
takeo adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Norman

1 entries

enn'yant adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

kjedelig adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
kjedsommelig adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

keisam adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
kjedeleg adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Persian

3 entries

ملالآور adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
کسالتبار adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
کسلکننده adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Polish

1 entries

nudny adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Portuguese

4 entries

chato adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
enfadonho adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
entediante adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
maçante adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Romanian

4 entries

anost adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
fastidios adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
plicticos adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
plictisitor adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Russian

2 entries

ну́дный adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
ску́чный adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

liosta adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

dȍsādan adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
до̏са̄дан adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Slovene

1 entries

dolgočásen adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Spanish

4 entries

aburrido adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
aburridor adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
amazacotado adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
fome adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Swedish

1 entries

långtråkig adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Thai

2 entries

น่าเบื่อ adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
เบื่อ adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Turkish

1 entries

sıkıcı adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Turkmen

1 entries

tukat adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Ukrainian

1 entries

нудни́й adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Vietnamese

1 entries

chán adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Welsh

1 entries

diflas adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Yiddish

2 entries

נודנע adj (causing boredom or tiredness)
סקוטשנע adj (causing boredom or tiredness)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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The professor's boring lecture put me to sleep.

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The holiday continues to be very boring.

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Was I really boring?

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All the films are boring.

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