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单词 bored
释义

bored

adjective

ˈbȯrd How to pronounce bored (audio)
: filled with or characterized by boredom
had never been more bored in her life
a bored voice
Bobbi slouched back against the cushions doing her best impression of a bored teenager … Ingrid Law

Synonyms

  • fed up
  • jaded
  • sick
  • sick and tired
  • tired
  • wearied
  • weary
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Alyssa Thomas quickly grew bored with the line of questioning. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2022 Hickey bored, doodling, during an interminable panel discussion. Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 The foundational study on which Ms. Preston’s hypothesis rests was conducted decades ago and found that post-partum rats would continue to retrieve pups for hours, until the researchers—but not the rat-mommas!—became bored, exhausted and gave up. David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022 This mutation has made many, many billionaires, many of whom are bored, hubristic, and, here and there, psychotic. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Apr. 2022 Iggy Pop is ‘the chairman of the bored’ who portrays alienation in poetic language. Fred Bronson, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2022 Iggy Pop is ‘the chairman of the bored’ who portrays alienation in poetic language. K.j. Yossman, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022 By the end of the decade, Callner had become bored with specials and excited by a flashier art form in its infancy at another young cable channel, MTV. New York Times, 18 May 2022 But Zink seems not only uninterested but quite bored by what an artist actually does. Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

bored 1 of 3

adjective

as in tired
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted I was completely bored during that speech

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • tired
  • sick
  • weary
  • frustrated
  • wearied
  • jaded
  • exhausted
  • annoyed
  • uninterested
  • fed up
  • irritated
  • disgusted
  • disinterested
  • dispirited
  • fatigued
  • dejected
  • sick and tired
  • apathetic
  • satiated
  • drained
  • exasperated
  • disheartened
  • demoralized
  • sated
  • discouraged
  • glutted
  • surfeited
  • beat
  • enervated
  • done in
  • repulsed
  • bushed
  • blasé
  • played out
  • nauseated
  • burnt-out
  • burned-out
  • limp
  • blase
  • worn-out
  • world-weary
  • tuckered (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • engrossed
  • interested
  • engaged
  • stimulated
  • intrigued
  • amused
  • excited
  • absorbed
  • energized
  • rapt
  • invigorated
  • galvanized
  • enthralled
  • charmed
  • fascinated
  • animated
  • vitalized
  • entertained
  • enlivened
  • hypnotized
  • enchanted
  • delighted
  • mesmerized
  • pleased
  • captivated
  • beguiled
  • bewitched
  • thrilled
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bored

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verb (1)

past tense of bore
1
as in drilled
to make a hole or series of holes in some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • drilled
  • pierced
  • punched
  • poked
  • holed
  • punctured
  • riddled
  • perforated
  • tapped
  • cut
  • penetrated
  • broke
  • pricked
  • gouged
  • hollowed
  • broached
  • excavated
  • grooved
  • prickled
  • split
  • slit
  • slashed
  • ruptured
  • gashed
  • rent
  • notched
  • rended
  • burrowed (into)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • filled
  • sealed
  • plugged
  • patched
2
as in pushed
to force one's way with some effort, she bored through the throng of yelling protestors

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • pushed
  • squeezed
  • jammed
  • shoved
  • jostled
  • pressed
  • crashed
  • elbowed
  • muscled
  • bulldozed
  • bulled
  • shouldered
  • thrust
  • rammed

bored

3 of 3

verb (2)

past tense of bore
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

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • tired
  • wearied
  • jaded
  • drained
  • exhausted
  • discouraged
  • wore
  • fatigued
  • put to sleep
  • palled
  • enervated
  • dispirited
  • dejected
  • burned out
  • disheartened
  • fagged
  • disabled
  • debilitated
  • enfeebled
  • wore out
  • demoralized
  • burnt out
  • washed out
  • tuckered (out)
  • did in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • interested
  • engrossed
  • engaged
  • intrigued
  • fascinated
  • enthralled
  • excited
  • amused
  • stimulated
  • entertained
  • energized
  • busied
  • enlivened
  • absorbed
  • invigorated
  • animated
  • gripped
  • activated
  • preoccupied
  • attracted
  • captivated
  • mesmerized
  • vitalized
  • galvanized
  • hypnotized
  • charmed
  • occupied
  • enchanted
  • strengthened
  • beguiled
  • bewitched
  • allured
  • immersed
  • involved
  • monopolized
  • busied
  • roused
  • stirred
  • rallied
  • pumped up
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