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adjective

ˈbȯr-iŋ How to pronounce boring (audio)
Definition of boringnext
as in tiring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest I wish this book weren't so boring; I keep falling asleep whenever I try to read it

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boring

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verb (1)

present participle of bore
1
as in drilling
to make a hole or series of holes in some woodpecker bored holes in our tree in the backyard

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2
as in pushing
to force one's way with some effort, she bored through the throng of yelling protestors

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boring

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verb (2)

present participle of bore
as in wearying
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 boring
Adjective
Public health messaging will keep pivoting back to the boring stuff that works. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Virtually all those trips involved hassle that was a bore to write about and just as boring to read. — Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
Cal’s power donors (justifiably) wanted out of the Justin Wilcox era because steady mediocrity and 20-13 slugfests were boring everyone to tears. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2026 Some speciality areas like trucking can get brutal and boring with long hours. — George Yang, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boring
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boring
  1. tiring
  2. drilling
  3. pushing
  4. wearying
  5. stupid
  6. piercing
  7. squeezing
  8. exhausting
Adjective
  • Even on a long, tiring shoot, the cast mostly still finds the energy to celebrate each other.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Swatting at wasps is a bad idea, and simply running from them gets tiring.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of tiring
Verb
  • Researchers investigating the site believed by some to be Noah's Ark have just wrapped up their first full field season — drilling more than 60 feet beneath the site and collecting hundreds of samples now undergoing laboratory analysis.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • To determine the duration of the Chicxulub hydrothermal system, Pickersgill recovered samples at the site, drilling 1 km down.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of drilling
Verb
  • Minh Connors | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.
    — Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
  • That visibility gives leaders the leverage to address the underlying constraints instead of asking teams to keep pushing against them.
    — Angela Palo, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of pushing
Verb
  • But even at its most explicit, in documentaries, political cinema acts as an antidote to the culture’s wearying vogue for escapism.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • But for two hours the film is just set-piece after set-piece, backed by a deafening score, which becomes rather wearying.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 July 2026
Definition of wearying
Adjective
  • Parents who decline to vaccinate their children have been called selfish and stupid.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026
  • No one is evil, but people do stupid things, which accords with my own memories of college.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of stupid
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  • The most impressive is the national park’s namesake, El Teide, a cloud-piercing volcano at around 12,200 feet high—Spain’s tallest peak.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Henry is tall and slender with a piercing gaze and blue-gray eyes.
    — Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of piercing
Verb
  • Moreover, the short extension of the trade armistice only underscores its fragility; Beijing is still squeezing flows of rare earths to extract concessions from the US and coerce its allies, including Japan.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 26 Sep. 2026
  • That high pressure and the burgeoning nor’easter are squeezing the air between them, increasing wind speeds along the East Coast.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of squeezing
Verb
  • The gentle squeeze around your legs provides other surprising health benefits on exhausting travel days.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Commanders should seek positional advantages without exhausting their soldiers, manipulate the enemy’s movements when possible, and recognize when circumstances make pursuit or attack unwise.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of exhausting

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