bored
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bored
adj 1: tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through
the museum with a bored air" [syn: {bored}, {world-
weary}]
2: uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his
blase indifference"; "a petulant blase air"; "the bored gaze
of the successful film star" [syn: {blase}, {bored}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bore \Bore\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boring}.] [OE. borien, AS. borian; akin to Icel. bora, Dan.
bore, D. boren, OHG. por?n, G. bohren, L. forare, Gr. ? to
plow, Zend bar. [root]91.]
1. To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an
auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round
hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.
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I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
--Shak.
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2. To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or
apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel;
to bore a hole.
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Short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the
insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical
passage through the most solid wood. --T. W.
Harris.
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3. To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as,
to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and
difficult passage through. "What bustling crowds I bored."
--Gay.
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4. To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to
trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
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He bores me with some trick. --Shak.
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Used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
--Carlyle.
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5. To befool; to trick. [Obs.]
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I am abused, betrayed; I am laughed at, scorned,
Baffled and bored, it seems. --Beau. & Fl.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "bored":
aloof, anguished, anxious, apathetic, benumbed, blase, bored stiff,
bored to death, bored to tears, careless, cheerless, dead,
debilitated, depressed, detached, disgusted, disinterested,
distant, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated,
exanimate, grim, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, impassive,
inanimate, incurious, indifferent, inert, insouciant, jaded,
joyless, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic,
lifeless, listless, lumpish, mindless, moribund, nauseated,
nauseous, numb, phlegmatic, pleasureless, pooped, prey to malaise,
regardless, repelled, revolted, sad, sated, sickened, sleepy, slow,
sluggish, somnolent, stagnant, stagnating, stolid, stultified,
stuporous with boredom, suffering angst, supine, torpid,
unconcerned, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy,
uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unquiet,
unsatisfied, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn,
world-weary
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