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What does bored mean?

Definitions in simple English

bored Adjective

— If you are bored, you have nothing to do or there is nothing interesting. After ten years at the same job, he had grown bored with work. I just get bored with doing the same thing over and over.

bored

— adjective tired of the world bored with life strolled through the museum with a bored air — adjective (= blase) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence his blase indifference a petulant blase air the bored gaze of the successful film star

Synonyms bored synonyms

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pierced tired perforated fed up uninterested senseless boring world-weary tired of satiated fed up with exhausted bored-looking blase worried weary wearied vexed vex uncomfortable trouble torment tire of tedious tasteless stuffy splintered sickened sick of saddle-sore sad rigmarole rent petty p.o.’ed melancholy make tired listless jaded idle having nothing to do grow tired get tired get bored fatigued exhaust excavated edgy dug up dislike

Topics bored topics

What do people use bored to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored

What words refer to feeling uninterested in something?

not be interested lack interest be bored (with) be fed up with be tired of don't care (about) can't be bothered your heart's not in it be cool towards show no interest express no interest leave someone cold
What words describe someone who feels uninterested?

uninterested disinterested apathetic bored dull lethargic uncaring unconcerned unenthusiastic half-hearted lukewarm
What words refer to feeling very uninterested?

could care less couldn't care less be bored to tears be bored stiff be bored out of your mind someone's eyes glaze over
What words describe someone who is not interested in anything?

bored bored to tears bored stiff

Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Alert

What words describe someone who is not alert?

unaware mindless unmindful bored disregard flighty heedless oblivious

Examples bored examples

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Simple sentences

The audience looked bored.

His speech bored me.

I'm bored.

I'm just a little bored.

Are you bored?

They are bored.

He got bored after fifteen minutes.

She got bored after fifteen minutes.

Are you bored here?

We're bored.

Tom seems bored.

We're all bored.

We were bored.

They look bored.

You look bored.

The audience appeared bored.

That child got bored.

She was very bored during the lecture.

I was bored with his speech.

I am bored to death.

The audience walked out of the theater, looking bored.

He made such a long speech that we all got bored.

I got bored with his long talk.

His long speech bored everyone.

The more she talked, the more bored I got.

She is bored with this novel.

Come on, play with me, I'm so bored!

I was bored because I had seen the movie before.

Sarah gets very bored listening to her grandparents rambling on about old times.

A tunnel has been bored through the mountain.

We got a little bored with each other.

I was bored with his old jokes.

Movie subtitles

But what good are riches when you're bored?

I think he went crazy, bored beyond human endurance, messing around in this sand and these rocks.

You let me talk myself hoarse, and you never interrupted me, and you didn't let on that I bored you.

I'm bored to the hilt with me.

I felt rather bored in the hotel so I came here with Mr. Marvin. You don't mind, do you?

And you'll be bored.

He'd be bored with my friends.

Oh, I'm afraid of nothing except being bored.

It keeps people from getting bored.

We're not bored.

Patsy, I'm sorry you're so bored tonight.

I've been bored for a month.

O-oh, Dear Lord! O-oh, I'm bored!

So bored, oh Lord!

I've been bored.

I was just becoming bored.

And if you get bored with me, all you've got to do is to get up and go away and it doesn't matter.

I shall get tired. I shall get ill again. And you'll be bored.

No, merely bored.

If you get bored, there's the cocktail bar.

Why tonight? I've been bored for a month.

I get bored doing nothing.

But if you get bored, you come along, join us later.

Are you bored?

Sometimes I get a little bored.

Perhaps you wouldn't be bored anymore if you followed me.

And I know Mother's going to be bored to distraction.

It's only because you'd be bored.

I get so bored I could scream.

Everyone's well at Tara, only. I got so bored, I thought I'd treat myself to a visit to town.

News and current affairs

One of President Clinton's problems, they said, was that the ceremonial portions of the job bored him - and thus he got himself into big trouble.

The Sistine Chapel cannot compare with it - most children will become bored after ten minutes by the frescoes of Michelangelo, but will watch a detergent commercial with riveted interest.

Within a month the media elite was bored.

It cannot simply pack up and move on when it faces a loss or is bored with a story.

Indeed, one explanation I have often heard for the political turmoil in France in May 1968 is that the French people were bored with the successes of General de Gaulle's presidency and so took to the streets around the Sorbonne for fun.

People are bored; they think it's immoral that money should become the world's main reference.

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but wait for the next meal.

Surrounded by a forbidding wall, watchtowers, and deadly buffer zones, I entered with a hard-to-obtain visa at the Erez crossing - iron gates, an interrogation by bored young immigration officers and scanners.

Many observers will remain mystified; few will be bored.

Besides, even if bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq or Syria makes military sense, it won't break the spell of Islamist revolution for frustrated, bored, and marginalized young people in French slums.

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