Boring

//ˈbɔː.ɹɪŋ//

Synonyms for "boring" (145 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

6 entries

More specific

1 entries

Synonyms

3 entries

Related terms

4 entries

at location

1 entries

causes

1 entries

causes desire

1 entries

coordinate

10 entries

derived

10 entries

derived from

1 entries

form of

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is a

2 entries

related to

7 entries

similar

1 entries

Translations

111 translations across 56 languages.

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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.

Source: tatoeba (19023)

The holiday continues to be very boring.

Source: tatoeba (19840)

Was I really boring?

Source: tatoeba (25495)

All the films are boring.

Source: tatoeba (26460)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.