boredadjective
uk/bɔːd/us/bɔːrd/A1 feeling unhappy because something is not interesting or because you have nothing to do:
It was a cold, wet day and the children were bored.
He was getting bored with/of doing the same thing every day.
More examples
- I was so bored that I slept through the second half of the film.
- I enjoyed my course at first, but after a time I got bored with it.
- He sensed (that) his guests were bored, although they were listening politely.
- He grew bored of the countryside.
- The novelty of these toys soon wore off and the children became bored with them.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bore and bored
- (stuck) in a rut idiom
- ass
- banal
- be (stuck) in a groove idiom
- be watching the clock idiom
- bore the ass off sb idiom
- bored stiff idiom
- brain-dead
- brassed off
- clock
- get itchy feet idiom
- listless
- outgrow
- pall
- restless
- suck
- tire
- uninterested
- weary
- you should get out more idiom
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Idiom(s)
bored stiff