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
Zach Harper, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Karl Bushby World Explorer At a certain point during his tenure in the British army, Bushby got bored.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025
Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Denji is bored out of his mind by most of them, but the last film is good enough to move him to tears.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
There’s always a smattering of applause, maybe some air horns from the game operations people, and then the player walks back to the sideline huddle before the game begins, looking pretty bored/focused.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Karl Bushby World Explorer At a certain point during his tenure in the British army, Bushby got bored.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2025
Verb
The mathematician John Wallis, recounting the story in 1693, didn’t say whether Rupert wrote a proof or bored a hole through an actual cube.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Denji is bored out of his mind by most of them, but the last film is good enough to move him to tears.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bored
tired
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Benin is the birthplace of voodoo, a religion far more complex than the tired tropes of straw dolls and pins.—
Caitlin Gunther,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Jan. 2026
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The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Bored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bored. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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