bored

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adjective

ˈbȯrd 

: filled with or characterized by boredom

a bored voice

She had never been more bored in her life than while waiting for her delayed flight.

Bobbi slouched back against the cushions doing her best impression of a bored teenager …

—Ingrid Law

bored

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past tense and past participle of bore entry 1, bore entry 6

Synonyms of bored

Adjective

• tired

Examples of bored in a Sentence

Adjective

I was completely bored during that speech

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

The trend took off in 2020 when a subset of bored young people, shut in by the pandemic, decided to blow their stimmy checks on something besides weed and DoorDash, and dove into stock-buying instead. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

When challenge is too low for abilities, the result is becoming bored, disengaged and increasingly disconnected from the task. — Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

On Wednesday, two bored members of the press corps sat in the briefing room and debated the timing of the court hearing on the challenge to Trump’s ban. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

Cut sketches include one in which Mitchell and Webb play English Civil War re-enactors who have grown bored of their roles and recreate a conflict between government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a rebel militia. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1823, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bored

• abhorred
• aboard
• accord
• adored
• afford
• award
• baseboard
• billboard
• blackboard
• boxboard
• breadboard
• broadsword