as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
I was completely bored during that speech
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as in drilled
to make a hole or series of holes in
some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard
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as in wearied
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous
the professor's lifeless and unimaginative teaching style bored the students to death
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Recent Examples of bored
Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
Exotic varieties will die off or will revert to ordinary street pigeons in several generations if humans get bored with them and stop rebreeding them.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Doing the same things every day and not getting bored with doing the same things every day.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
At the North Face outlet store—selling authentic gear from the brand—a few bored trekkers leafed through the down jackets.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
Exotic varieties will die off or will revert to ordinary street pigeons in several generations if humans get bored with them and stop rebreeding them.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Verb
Doing the same things every day and not getting bored with doing the same things every day.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Doing the same things every day and not getting bored with doing the same things every day.
—Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bored
tired
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While infants and toddlers between the ages of 0 to 2 years are more likely to experience a stuffy nose, cough, poor appetite, fussiness, and sleep problems, children between the ages of 3 to 5 years mainly complain of sleepiness, feeling tired during daytime, low energy and dry cough.—
Anuradha Varanasi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Family members said Jacobs had talked about feeling tired, but not about wanting to take his own life.—
Ames Alexander,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2025
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“Bored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bored. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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