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adjective
- 1. not interesting; tedious: "I've got a boring job in an office"
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The meaning of BORING is causing weariness and restlessness through lack of interest : causing boredom : tiresome. How to use boring in a sentence.
A1. not interesting or exciting: She finds opera boring. It's boring to sit on the plane with nothing to read. a boring lecture. The movie was so boring I fell asleep. Synonyms. drab disapproving. dreary disapproving. dry (BORING) disapproving. dull. ho-hum. monotonous. tedious. uninteresting. wearisome formal.
Boring definition: causing or marked by boredom; dull and uninteresting; tiresome. See examples of BORING used in a sentence.
As an adjective boring describes something (or someone) that is tedious, dull, and lacking in interest. As a noun, boring refers to the act of drilling a hole, or the hole itself.
Definition of boring adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Boring is the enlarging of a hole by removing material from the internal surfaces with a single-point cutter bit.
Something that is boring fails to hold one's interest or attention, often resulting in listlessness or impatience: I had never read such a boring book. What is monotonous bores because of lack of variety: "There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea" (James Russell Lowell).
