Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Adjective

Verb

Adjective

The word "boring" can be used as noun, proper noun, adjective, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

meeting

Causes

suicide

Causes Desire

play cards

Coordinate Terms

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

Derived Terms

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

Derived From

bore

Inflected/Variant Forms

bore

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

creating by removal familiar machining moving normal production

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

wearisome

Type Of (IsA)

event production

Related Terms

bore bored boredom common

Related Terms

bore bored boredom hole interest organism pit

Similar Terms

uninteresting

Synonym Network

deadening drilling dull

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