Synonyms for bore
bɔr, boʊr

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. bore, dullard(noun)

   a person who evokes boredom

   Synonyms:
   tidal bore, stupid person, caliber, gauge, pudding head, dolt, eagre, eager, calibre, stupid, stupe, dullard, pillock, pudden-head, poor fish, drill hole, bore-hole, aegir

   Antonyms:
   interest

2. tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager(noun)

   a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

   Synonyms:
   dullard, aegir, eager, bore-hole, eagre, drill hole, calibre, caliber, tidal bore, gauge

   Antonyms:
   interest

3. bore, gauge, caliber, calibre(noun)

   diameter of a tube or gun barrel

   Synonyms:
   dullard, gage, aegir, eager, bore-hole, standard of measurement, eagre, drill hole, quality, calibre, caliber, tidal bore, gauge

   Antonyms:
   interest

4. bore, bore-hole, drill hole(verb)

   a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

   Synonyms:
   dullard, aegir, eager, bore-hole, eagre, drill hole, calibre, caliber, tidal bore, gauge

   Antonyms:
   interest

5. bore, tire(verb)

   cause to be bored

   Synonyms:
   fag out, weary, play out, wear upon, pall, drill, fatigue, run down, exhaust, tire, wear out, sap, wear, outwear, tire out, wear down, jade

   Antonyms:
   interest

6. bore, drill(verb)

   make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

   "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"

   Synonyms:
   tire, practise, drill, practice, exercise

   Antonyms:
   interest

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. bore

   Synonyms:
   annoy, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary

   Antonyms:
   amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, interest, occupy, please, recreate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. bore

   Synonyms:
   perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate

   Antonyms:
   please, gratify, delight

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. bore(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   perforate, pierce, drill

2. bore(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   weary (by tedious repetition), fatigue, plague, trouble, vex, worry, annoy

3. bore(n.)

   Synonyms:
   hole, calibre

4. bore(n.)

   Synonyms:
   proser, button-holder

5. bore(n.)

   Synonyms:
   eagre, great tidal flood

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. bore(n)

   Synonyms:
   perforation, caliber, tiresome person, proser

2. bore(v)

   Synonyms:
   perforate, pierce, drill, weary, tire, annoy, fatigue

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "bore":

   boron, diameter, piercing, bores, annoy, boring, boredom, wore

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How to use bore in a sentence?

1. H. L. Mencken:

   The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

2. Henry Adams:

   As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

3. Wallace Stevens:

   Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

4. Donald Trump:

   Their news conference after I left for El Paso was a fraud. It bore no resemblance to what took place with those incredible people that I was so lucky to meet and spend time with. They were all amazing !

5. Tomiko Kawano:

   Sadako would ask us, "What is junior high like?" or "Is English class hard?" Since we knew she would never see the inside of the junior high school, it was painful to answer her. All we could do was try to ease her feelings by saying things like, "Junior high--what a bore," and "Elementary school was better.

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