ennuyéadj.
a. Affected with ennui.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective]
irk1303
tedious1430
irksome1435
irked1513
ennuyé1757
seccatored1763
yawny1805
bored1823
used up1839
yawnish1855
fed up1900
fed to the (back) teeth1921
browned off1938
brassed1941
cheesed1941
chocker1942
pissy1962
1757 T. Gray Let. 25 Aug. in Corr. (1971) II. 520 I am alone and ennuyé to the last degree, yet do nothing.
1822 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 18 (note) A sort of ennuyé, triste, pitiable busy-idler.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. v. vii. 109 He must be terribly ennuyé here.
b. quasi-n. (also feminine ennuyée), one who is troubled with ennui.
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1826 A. Jameson (title) Diary of an Ennuyée.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1757- thorlike
- thorn
- to be sent into the world
- to be sent on the parish
- to be set about
- to be set in one's ways
- to be set round with
- to be set sentinel
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- to be settled of
- to be severe on
- to be severe upon
- to be shacked
- to be shacked up
- to be sharp or keen set
- to be sharp upon
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- to be ship-mates with
- to be shipmates with
- to be shitting it
- to be shook on
- to be shooting blanks
- to be shorn
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