| 单词 | boredom |
| 释义 | boredom (once / 3187 pages) n Boredom can make you do crazy things, like watching terrible old game shows on television or eating the bag of chocolate chips you find in the freezer. The feeling of being bored or uninterested in what you're doing is boredom. Everyone experiences boredom sometimes. The feeling that nothing catches your interest, that everything's dull and flat, sums up the state of boredom. Too much time on your hands can result in boredom, and so can the tediousness of doing the same thing over and over again, like a dreary task at a job. The word boredom comes from something called a "boring tool", a kind of drill that works slowly and repetitively; around 1768, bore, meaning "be tiresome," became a popular slang term, and boredom followed. WORD FAMILYboredom: boredoms+/bore: bored, borer, bores, boring, counterbore/bored: boredly, boredom/borer: borers/boring: boringly, boringness, borings/counterbore: counterbores USAGE EXAMPLES“The kids that are bright, you hope don’t die of boredom,” she says. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) He finds, maybe, a value in boredom, which I also kind of relate to. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) They were often days of boredom, punctuated by bursts of drama and bravado. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) n the feeling of being bored by something tedious Syn|Hypo|Hyper ennui, tedium blahs a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction fatigue(always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something dissatisfaction the feeling of being displeased and discontent |
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