Bored

Definition: Bored

Bored

Adjective

1. Tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air".

2. Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulent blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bored

Crosswords: Bored

Okay, umm, if you ever get bored with your man, it's perfectly okay to picture someone else's head on his body (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps; writing credit: Jerry Lewis; Steve Oedekerk)

It turned out I was just really bored. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner)

Nah, I was bored with it anyway (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

Go with somebody, child, 'cause I's gettin' bored. (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.)

It's just like C-Span, only I'm not bored. (Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde; writing credit: Amanda Brown; Eve Ahlert)

Alone and bored on a 30th century night (It's All Been Done; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies; writing credit: Steven Page)

Ain't you getting bored with these fake ass broads (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

We were just young and restless and bored (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)

I ain't nothing but tired, man I'm just tired and bored with myself (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

I can't afford to sit down, get bored (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

Are You Bored with Men? Darling (1968)

I'm Bored Marcello (1966)

Room and Bored (1962)

Zoom and Bored (1957)

A Star Is Bored (1956)

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Books

• Iphigenia (The Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored) (reference)

• No Bored Babies: A Guide to Making Developmental Toys for Babies Birth to Age Two (reference)

• The interior castle; including Boston adventure, The mountain lion, and a new collection of short stories, Children are bored on Sunday (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bored of Education/Arbor Day (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bored (reference)

• Bored Games (reference)

• Bored in the Usa (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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What a movie fan has to listen to : Mr. and Mrs. Highbrow are bored to extinction by the movies ... Credit: Library of Congress.

"Say 'ah'." Lion at London Zoo seems bored with captivity. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Among these idlers there are some that are bores, some that are bored, some dreamers, and some jokers

Pa dug his stick into the dust and rolled it between his fingers so that it bored a little hole

Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Many people who are binge eaters say that being angry, sad, bored, or worried can cause them to binge eat. Impulsive behavior (acting quickly without thinking) and certain other emotional problems can be more common in people with binge eating disorder. (references)

Economic History

Uk

It would appear that young consumers are bored with what's offered on 'Main Street' and are spending more on holidays and other leisure pursuits. (references)

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Expressions using "bored": be bored ♦ be bored stiff ♦ be bored to death ♦ be bored with ♦ being bored ♦ bored tunnel construction method ♦ feel bored ♦ get bored ♦ getting bored ♦ i was bored. Additional references.

Beginning with "bored": bored-looking, bored-o-meter, bored-out.

Ending with "bored": accurately-bored, across-the-bored, counter-bored, Ear-bored, easily-bored, ever-bored, open-bored, re-bored.

Albanian

i mërzitur (annoyed, blue, creepy, disgruntled, dissatisfied, down-hearted, fed up, gloomily, gloomy, long-spun, moldy, monotone, monotonous, mouldy, pained), i lodhur (all in, aweary, disgusted, fatigued, flagging, forworn, jaded, languorous, rundown, sick, tired, used up, way-worn, weary, worn out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضجر (be fed up, bore, boredom, dullness, fed up, give up, importune, irk, plumb, tedium, tire, tiredness, weariness, weary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отегчен (tired of, uninterested, weary, world-weary). (various references)

Chinese 

無聊 (nonsense), 不耐烦 (Boring, impatient). (various references)

Czech

znudìný (weary), znuděný, otrávený (annoyed, cheesed-off, envenomed, fed up, frustrated, peeved, poisoned, poisonous). (various references)

Danish

boret tunnel-byggemetode (bored tunnel construction method), boret latrin (bored latrine), udboremaskine til hulaksler (boring machine for duplicating the interiors of hollow-bored shafts), stor borepael (large bored pile), spunsvaeg med overlappende borepaele (bored diaphragm wall with interlocking piles, bored diaphragm wall with secant piles), spunsvaeg bestaende af tangerende borepaele (bored diaphragm wall with contiguous bored piles), prop med huller (bored stopper), ormehul (bored hole, pipe, worm hole, wormhole), insekthul (bored hole, gallery, insect hole, mine, tunnel, worm hole), denne i tufbjergarter brudte gang uden understoettelse af nogen art eller andre forhindringer, er det ideale forsoegssted til efterproevning af en teori om underjordisk radioboelgeforplantning (this tunnel bored through calcareous tufa does not contain any supports or other obstacles and is the ideal test site for a theory of underground propagation). (various references)

Dutch

boorpaalwand met elkaar rakende boorpalen (bored diaphragm wall with contiguous bored piles), boorpaal met grote diameter (large bored pile), zich vervelen (be bored, be tired of something, get bored), ruimmachine voor het inwendig uitdraaien van holle assen (boring machine for duplicating the interiors of hollow-bored shafts), houtworm (bored hole, common furniture beetle, death watch, death watch beetle, european furniture beetles, furniture beetle, furniture borer, woodworm, worm hole), gecombineerde boorpalenwand (bored diaphragm wall with interlocking piles, bored diaphragm wall with secant piles), geboorde tunnelconstructie (bored tunnel construction method), geboorde kurk (bored stopper), fijnboormachine voor het inwendig uitdraaien van holle assen (boring machine for duplicating the interiors of hollow-bored shafts), doorboorde kurk (bored stopper), deze in tufsteen gegraven galerij zonder ondersteuning of andere obstakels is het ideale proefterrein voor het controleren van de theorie der ondergrondse voortplanting van golven (this tunnel bored through calcareous tufa does not contain any supports or other obstacles and is the ideal test site for a theory of underground propagation), de voorafgaande diepwaterinjectie van een veld wordt vanuit twee boorgaten bewerkstelligd,aangezet vanuit de steengangen die het afbouwveld begrenzen (advance remote infusion of the panel is being carried out through two supply holes bored from the crosscuts delimiting the panel). (various references)

Esperanto

enuiĝi (get bored), enui (be bored, be tired of something). (various references)

Faeroese

keða seg (be bored, be tired of something). (various references)

Finnish

ikävystynyt (weary). (various references)

French

qui s'ennuie. (various references)

German

langweilte, angebohrt. (various references)

Greek 

σκωληκότρημα (bored hole, worm hole), βαριόμουνα (I was bored), βαριέμαι την δουλειά (I am bored with the job), βαριέμαι (bore, feed up, I am bored, I am fed up with, I am sick of), βαθύ αποχωρητήριο το οποίο με τη βοήθεια τρυπανιού έχει φτάσει σε υπόγειο νερό (bored latrine), μέθοδος κατασκευής σηράγγων (bored tunnel construction method), η προτηλέγχυση ενός μετώπου προσπέλασης πραγματοποιείται μέσω δύο διατρημάτων εκτροπής του νερού ορυχθέντα απο τις διατομές οριοθέτησης (advance remote infusion of the panel is being carried out through two supply holes bored from the crosscuts delimiting the panel), τρήμα (foramen), διανοιγμένη τρύπα (bored hole, worm hole), διατρητικό μηχάνημα αναμορφώσεως του εσωτερικού κοίλων ράβδων (boring machine for duplicating the interiors of hollow-bored shafts). (various references)

Hebrew 

משועמם, קדוח (drilled, drilling). (various references)

Hungarian

unott (blasé, lackadaisical). (various references)

Indonesian

bosan (be bored, blase, boring, tired of). (various references)

Italian

stufo (fed up), annoiato (tired, weary). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飽き飽き (sick of), 厭き厭き (sick of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あきあき (sick of). (various references)

Korean 

도려내는. (various references)

Manx

towlit (broached, drilled, eyed), thiollit (perforated, pierced, pitted). (various references)

Maya

naak ool (to be bored). (various references)

Papiamen

maha (be bored, be tired of something). (various references)

Pig Latin

oredbay.(various references)

Polish

nudzić się (be bored, be tired of something). (various references)

Portuguese

furado (honeycombed, looped, perforated, punctured), entediado (peevish). (various references)

Romanian

plictisit (browned off, down in the mouth, tired). (various references)

Russian 

скучающий, сверлить;бурить;надоедать скучный, мне скучно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bilo mi je dosadno (bore: I was bored), dosađivati se (be bored). (various references)

Spanish

aburrido (boring, dry, dull, humdrum, prosy, slow, stodgy, tame, tired, tiresome, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Swedish

uttråkad (fed up). (various references)

Thai

ที่น่าเบื่อ (lackluster, lacklustre). (various references)

Turkish

bunalmış, bıkkın (blasé, disgusted, sick, tired, weary), sıkılmış (crushed). (various references)

Ukrainian

набридлий (everlasting), знуджений (weary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bored": boredom, boredoms. (additional references)

Words ending with "bored": arbored, belabored, harbored, labored, mislabored, neighbored, overlabored, rebored, tabored. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bored" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bered, bereid, boaed, boared, boder, boed, bofe, boged, Boorde, boore, boored, borbe, borde, Bordel, Bordez, Bordj, bordl, boredt, Borel, boren, boreo, boret, Borey, bori, borid, borked, borned, borre, borred, borted, Borut, Borve, botred, bouraq, breld, brode, broted, Broyd, Buoerta, Burad, byrde, kored, korred, ored, vored, yored. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: orbed, robed.

-1 letter: bode, bore, bred, doer, dore, redo, robe, rode.

-2 letters: bed, bod, bro, deb, doe, dor, obe, ode, orb, ore, reb, red, rob, rod, roe.

-3 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: bolder, bonder, bordel, border, boride, browed, debtor, desorb, dobber, probed, rebody, robbed, sorbed.

+2 letters: aborted, arbored, bandore, becrowd, bedrock, bedroll, bedroom, bedsore, berobed, blonder, boarded, boarder, bonders, boodler, borated, bordels, borders, bordure, boredom, borides, boulder, bounder, bowered, bowlder, bravoed, broaden, broader, brocade, broider, broiled, bromide, bronzed, brooded, brooder, brooked, broomed, browned, browsed, deboner, debtors, deorbit, desorbs, disrobe, dobbers, doubler, doubter, enrobed, forbade, forbode, labored, lowbred, obtrude, orbited, outbred, overbed, overbid, overdub, reboard, rebored, rebound, redbone, redoubt, roadbed, rosebud, sobered, tabored, unrobed, zebroid.