What are some alternative words for boring?
Synonyms for boring
ˈbɔr ɪŋ, ˈboʊr-
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Princeton's WordNet
drilling, boring(noun)
the act of drilling
Synonyms:
oil production, drillingAntonyms:
interestingboring, drilling, oil production(adj)
the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
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oil production, drillingAntonyms:
interestingboring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome(adj)
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
"a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Synonyms:
dull, dim, windy, wearisome, wordy, dense, muted, verbose, dumb, leaden, tedious, slow, sluggish, obtuse, deadening, tiresome, muffled, ho-hum, long-winded, irksome, thudding, softenedAntonyms:
interesting
Wiktionary
boring(adjective)
Synonyms:
tedious, mind-numbing, dullboring(adjective)
That which incites boredom in a person.
Synonyms:
dull, tedious, mind-numbing
Editors Contribution
unfun
something or someone who lacks sense of fun and excitement.
Submitted by rinat on September 3, 2019
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
boring(n)
Synonyms:
perforation, transforation
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#2901 | slow | |
#5071 | sad | |
#8356 | boring | |
#8995 | drilling | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9416 | annoying | |
#9564 | dumb | |
#9770 | dense | |
#9929 | bored | |
#11018 | piercing | |
#11904 | bore | |
#13293 | dull | |
#13405 | beard | |
#13785 | lame | |
#16762 | windy | |
#19569 | boredom | |
#20706 | tedious | |
#22081 | verbose | |
#29806 | sluggish | |
#32570 | softened | |
#32598 | muted | |
#34818 | pesky | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#44309 | monotonic | |
#44579 | bummer | |
#46948 | bothersome | |
#48293 | monotonous | |
#48971 | tiresome | |
#49055 | muffled | |
#56643 | obtuse | |
#70981 | wordy | |
#91829 | leaden | |
#107606 | deadening | |
#109623 | irksome | |
#129314 | wearisome | |
#207170 | thudding |
How to use boring in a sentence?
Traditional sports are kind of boring.
If they based it just on what we know [about] dinosaurs, it would be a pretty boring movie, we're learning more all of the time, but we can't reconstruct these animals and understand them in a way we understand living animals.
Leaflets and literature are the sort of things that change minds, and knocking on doors and talking to people is all about energizing people - getting the vote out and people to commit, it's not sexy, and it's the boring administrative stuff behind any election, but it matters.
I think women's tennis is a little bit boring with just hitting up and down all the time, i hope it goes back more to the artistry side of volleying. Billie Jean( King) and I were much more aggressive I think than a lot of players today.
If anything I actually kind of enjoy it more now, which I wasn’t really expecting, i was having such a great time when I was drinking and partying and I thought sobriety would be boring, but it’s really not.
Translations for boring
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- مُضْجِرٌ, مُمِلٌّ, مللArabic
- абры́длівыBelarusian
- скучен, досаденBulgarian
- avorritCatalan, Valencian
- nudnýCzech
- diflasWelsh
- kedeligDanish
- langweiligGerman
- βαρετός, πληκτικός, ανιαρόςGreek
- enua, teda, enuigaEsperanto
- aburridoSpanish
- ملال آور, کسل کنندهPersian
- tylsä, ikävystyttäväFinnish
- barbant, ennuyeuse, ennuyeuxFrench
- liostaScottish Gaelic
- משעמם, משעממתHebrew
- unalmasHungarian
- ձանձրալիArmenian
- enoyiganta, enoyigivaIdo
- leiðinlegurIcelandic
- tedioso, noioso, noiosa, palloso, soporiferoItalian
- つまらない, 退屈, うんざり, 退屈なJapanese
- მოსაწყენი, მოსაბეზრებელიGeorgian
- 무료한, 지루Korean
- langweilegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- saaiDutch
- kjedsommelig, kjedeligNorwegian
- nudnyPolish
- chato, entediante, enfadonho, maçantePortuguese
- anost, plicticos, plictisitor, fastidiosRomanian
- скучный, нудныйRussian
- dȍsādan, до̏са̄данSerbo-Croatian
- dolgočásenSlovene
- tråkigSwedish
- சலிப்புTamil
- sıkıcıTurkish
- بورنگUrdu
- 无聊Chinese
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