Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of bore. . A bored woman selling souvenirs in Moscow.
- adj. suffering from boredom
- adj. uninterested, without attention
- adj. perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. tired of the world; bored with life.
- adj. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Opposite of
interested .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tired of the world
- adj. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
Etymologies
- From the verb to bore 'annoy', itself of unknown origin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As we have seen, it can be very difficult to distinguish between a gifted student who is genuinely bored with the pace of the regular curriculum and an underachiever who uses the term bored to describe her inner state of anxiety and emptiness.”
“Roweena returned her attention to her parchment, her expression bored.”
“The word "bored" is listed in Webster's dictionary as an adjective meaning weary and restless through lack of interest.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Colier: The New Epidemic: Chronic Boredom
“He was careful to keep his legs casually thrown out in front of him, his expression bored.”
“John promised to tell me more of his visit when he writes again — I intended answering one of the letters to night, but have been what I called bored,2 until now, and now one or two bores are in my room talking hard as they can I will go to bed soon as I finish this It is now nearly eleven or past ten —”
Excerpts from the Diary of George N. Thompson, January 26, February 14, and February 15, 1851
“To be bored is to stop reacting to the external world, and to explore the internal one.”
“And I would remain bored even if the story were packed with pages of detail aimed at establishing verisimilitude.”
“It was confused, then curious, and now plain bored within its digital prison.”
365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
“She had no education, no work history, not a clue about how to behave outside the bedroom and the kitchen (shed fled the PTA in bored horror years earlier).”
A Conversation with Jean Harfenist, author of A Brief History of the Flood
“We might have driven off England and into the sea if not for a boy waving a torch in bored zigzags by the school entrance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bored’.
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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Words that start with B
butterfly, brain, broom, break, brick, brilliant, bubbles, balloons, bananas, bow, book, bunny and 37 more...
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Overused Words
GRRRR
about, like, very, awesome, good, cause, go, hard, bored, sweet, nice, cool and 3 more...
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Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
See also the list ...heterosexuality, homosexuality, agriculture, argumentative, that, article, thus, make, do, the, interesting, like and 106 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
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List.001
New word list
imperative, republic, subtle, Androgynous, licentious, auspices, avengeance, cabal, sibilant, Entropy, caduceus, ludicrous, and 170 more...
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Lizbt's Words
monkey, kitten, puppy, computer, screen, dalek, tardis, cute, dark, cotton, chocolate, sunshine and 125 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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flight plan
words that remind me of airline travel
sardines, cramped, squashed, stuffy, odor, crick, boredom, imposition, bureaucracy, incompetent, inefficient, impatient and 25 more...
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Dxpert's Words
typically, analysis, theorem, definitely, label, absolutely, bored, awkward, unfortunately, drastically, appointment, stopped and 36 more...
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hilart's list
oodle, tat, crock, poious, collateral, mush, tryst, shit, crass, sassy, sucks, bored and 20 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
:)
scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bored.
reesetee Saaaay...that's a fine list! On the other hand, I'll bet you could drum up an even finer one on an open Wordnik list. ;-) Dec 1, 2009
PossibleUnderscore Well...I'm never going to be bored again, not with this fantastic list. I mean, who wouldn't want to do these things! I never thought exercising and exorcised ghost would be so fun! Nov 30, 2009
chained_bear It's possible. All old, lascivious men get depressed now and then. Aug 5, 2008
reesetee Well, it is still using hand tools, so that's a bit promising. Aug 5, 2008
bilby WeirdNet has a very bleak outlook on this one. I'm getting worried; do you think he's suffering depression? Aug 5, 2008
reesetee Haha! Sadly, probably no one here would get it.... Aug 5, 2008
chained_bear *thinks about going around to the other cubicles and doing this* Aug 5, 2008
bilby Bored at work? Politely remind your colleagues not to play with drills. Aug 5, 2008
chained_bear Uhh... not a chance. But nice try. :) Aug 4, 2008
oroboros C_b, how can you be bored when schadenfreudgeon is dying to be listed? Aug 4, 2008
chained_bear What if you're bored at work? (Like I am right now.) Aug 4, 2008
anydelirium 'The man who lets himself be bored is more contemptible than the bore.' -Samuel Butler Feb 19, 2008