as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
I was completely bored during that speech
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as in drilled
to make a hole or series of holes in
some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard
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as in wearied
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous
the professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death
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Recent Examples of bored
Marcia Desanctis, airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
The daughter of scheming businessman Benjamin Horne, Audrey is bored, imaginative, and doesn’t care what anyone thinks.
—Ananda Pellerin, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Doing the same things every day and not getting bored with doing the same things every day.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
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Afterward, the female looked bored, and then, perking up at the grunts of nearby warthogs, hungry.
—Marcia Desanctis, airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
The daughter of scheming businessman Benjamin Horne, Audrey is bored, imaginative, and doesn’t care what anyone thinks.
—Ananda Pellerin, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
Doing the same things every day and not getting bored with doing the same things every day.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Doing the same things every day and not getting bored with doing the same things every day.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Bored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bored. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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