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boringadjective causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interestI wish this book weren't so boring; I keep falling asleep whenever I try to read it arid, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritlessblank, earthbound, gray(also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacularannoying, bothersome, irksome, irritatinglongsomepallingdraining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearingdebilitating, enfeeblingdemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiritingcommon, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapidcumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky(or pokey) absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrousanimating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrillingamusing, diverting, entertainingmoving, poignant, touchingalluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinatingmesmerizing, spellbindingsuspensefularresting, provocative, tantalizing boringverb1present participle of boreto make a hole or series of holes insome woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard drilling, holing, perforating, piercing, punching, puncturing, riddling broaching, tappingpoking, pricking, pricklingpenetratingburrowing (into), excavating, gouging, grooving, hollowingbreaking, cutting, gashing, notching, rending, rupturing, slashing, slitting, splitting filling, patching, plugging, sealing to force one's waywith some effort, she bored through the throng of yelling protestors bulldozing, bulling, crashing, elbowing, jamming, jostling, muscling, pressing, pushing, shouldering, squeezing ramming, shoving, thrusting boringverb2present participle of boreto make weary and restless by being dull or monotonousthe professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death jading, tiring, wearying pallingburning out, doing in, draining, enervating, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, tuckering (out), washing out, wearing, wearing outdebilitating, disabling, enfeeblingdejecting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting putting to sleep absorbing, busying, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, interesting, intriguing activating, animating, energizing, enlivening, exciting, galvanizing, invigorating, stimulating, strengthening, vitalizingamusing, entertainingalluring, attracting, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, hypnotizing, mesmerizingmonopolizing, preoccupyingbusying, immersing, involving, occupyingpumping up, rallying, rousing, stirring in 1785 |