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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bored, world-wearyadjective

    tired of the world

    "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"

  2. blase, boredadjective

    uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence

    "his blase indifference"; "a petulant blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star"

Wiktionary

  1. boredadjective

    suffering from boredom

  2. boredadjective

    uninterested, without attention

    The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes

  3. boredadjective

    perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

  4. Etymology: From the verb to bore 'annoy', itself of unknown origin

Wikipedia

  1. bored

    In conventional usage, boredom, ennui, or tedium is an emotional and occasionally psychological state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, is listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement, is not interested in their surroundings, or feels that a day or period is dull or tedious. It is also understood by scholars as a modern phenomenon which has a cultural dimension. "There is no universally accepted definition of boredom. But whatever it is, researchers argue, it is not simply another name for depression or apathy. It seems to be a specific mental state that people find unpleasant—a lack of stimulation that leaves them craving relief, with a host of behavioral, medical and social consequences." According to BBC News, boredom "...can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your health"; yet research "...suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn't achieve our creative feats."In Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity, Elizabeth Goodstein traces the modern discourse on boredom through literary, philosophical, and sociological texts to find that as "a discursively articulated phenomenon...boredom is at once objective and subjective, emotion and intellectualization—not just a response to the modern world, but also a historically constituted strategy for coping with its discontents." In both conceptions, boredom has to do fundamentally with an experience of time—such as experiencing the slowness of time—and problems of meaning.

ChatGPT

  1. bored

    Feeling uninterested or disinterested in something due to lack of excitement, stimulation or engagement; a state of weariness and restlessness often resulting from lack of activity or interest.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bored

    of Bore

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'bored' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3207

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'bored' in Adjectives Frequency: #805

Anagrams for bored »

  1. robed

  2. orbed

  3. brode

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bored in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bored in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bored in a Sentence

  1. Daniela Iannone:

    If I start to get bored, I know something needs to be adjusted, i take it back to the books, the images, and the music because that's what works best for me.

  2. Michael Joseph:

    One girl was a valedictorian, she told me: 'I had no friends until I started traveling. No one understood me. I was always bored with everything everybody else wanted to do. I didn't want to go shopping. I wanted to go out into the woods and hike, and nobody understood that.' She thinks she'll go to college eventually and become a teacher.

  3. Samuel Hoffenstein:

    When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

  4. Mike Sullivan:

    After retirement, I got bored and needed something to do.

  5. Sam Bompas:

    I'm kind of bored of every bar and restaurant opening in London that's down south American cooking, or Korean food, and it's staffed by waiters or chefs who've been on holiday somewhere and been inspired by it, and it having no real relationship to the local area or local history, or local meaning, so with' Alcoholic Architecture,' Alcoholic Architecture's about escapism and fun -- but at the same time Alcoholic Architecture's totally based on the local history.

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