Definitions for bored
bored

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

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

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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.

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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.

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1. Bored

   of Bore

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1. bored

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2. Bored

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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. Jonathan Cane:

   There’s not usually time to get bored during track workouts because you’re doing shorter segments, but they hurt because you’re working hard. So for each segment, focus on one particular body part or technique. For instance, on one 400m repeat, think about nothing but making sure your hands are where they should be. On the next one, focus on your knee lift or getting your heels up toward your butt. When your attention is on one particular aspect, you’re less likely to be thinking, ‘Oh crap, this hurts!’.

2. Samuel Butler:

   The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

3. Mary Wilson Little:

   The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

4. James Corden:

   Only once, I went mad in 2007, i got massaged into madness. I went on a holiday in the Maldives and I was extremely bored, so I thought, ‘I’ll have another massage.’ I was having about 30 massages a day. At the end of the holiday, I felt a little strange… I got on the plane to go home, opened the newspaper reading the football results, and I burst into tears. And I couldn’t stop crying for three weeks. It was completely absurd… so I went to see shrinks then.

5. Ben Goertzel:

   If you’re dealing with someone who is in the middle stages of dementia, they’re just asking the same thing over and over again, it’s the same thing day after day. The robot will never get bored with it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bored
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bored
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bored