bored

English

Etymology

From bore +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: board; baud, bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

bored

1. simple past and past participle of bore

Adjective

bored (comparative more bored or boreder, superlative most bored or boredest)

1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

   He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.

   The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.

   • 2006 October 3, Serene Luo, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3:

     [Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.

2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

Derived terms

• be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
• boredly
• boredness
• smoothbored
• unbored

(Expressions):

• bored out of one's brains
• bored out of one's mind
• bored out of one's tree
• bored stiff
• bored shitless
• bored to tears

Related terms

• bore, bore out
• boredom
• boring
• unbore

Translations

suffering from boredom

Ainu: ミㇱム (mismu) Arabic: مَلُول m (malūl), ضَجِر (ar) m (ḍajir) Hijazi Arabic: طفشان (ṭafšān), زهقان (zahgān) South Levantine Arabic: زهقان (zahqān, zahʔān) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: aspertuta (adverb) Belarusian: які́ ну́дзіцца (jakí núdzicca) Bulgarian: отегче́н (bg) pf (otegčén), скуча́ещ (bg) (skučáešt) Catalan: avorrit (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 悶 / 闷 (mun6) Mandarin: 厭煩 / 厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 無聊 / 无聊 (zh) (wúliáo) Czech: znuděný Danish: kede Dutch: verveeld (nl) Esperanto: enua, enui (eo) (predicative with the person bored in the nominative) Finnish: tylsistynyt (fi), kyllästynyt (fi) French: ennuyé (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: gelangweilt (de) Greek: τρυπημένος (el) (trypiménos), βαριεστημένος (el) (variestiménos) Hebrew: משועמם (mesho'amam) Hungarian: (adjective): unott (hu), unatkozó (hu), (verb): unatkozik (hu) Indonesian: bosan (id) Italian: annoiato (it), scocciato (it) Japanese: 退屈した (ja) (たいくつした, taikutsu shita) Kabuverdianu: enfadadu Khmer: ខ្ជេញ (km) (khcɨñ), នឿយណាយ (km) (nɨəy naay), ធុញ (km) (thuñ) Korean: 심심하다 (ko) (simsimhada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بێزار (bêzar) Latin: taesus, aliquem taedet aliquid Malay: bosan (ms) Maori: hongehongeā, hokehokeā, takeo Marathi: कंटाळलेला (kaṇṭāḷlelā) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: bił hodiikʼąąd Norwegian: kjed Polish: znudzony (pl) Portuguese: aborrecido (pt), chateado (pt), entediado (pt) Romanian: plictisit (ro) Russian: скуча́ющий (ru) (skučájuščij), ску́чно (ru) (skúčno) (predicative with the person bored in dative) Slovene: zdolgočasen Spanish: aburrido (es), embolado (es) Swedish: uttråkad (sv) Tagalog: kakatamad Thai: เบื่อ (th) (bʉ̀ʉa) Tày: bứa Turkish: sıkılan, sıkılmış Ukrainian: нудьгу́ючий (nudʹhújučyj) Uzbek: zerikgan Vietnamese: chán (vi) Winnebago: horušʼak

See also

• ennui
• ennuyé

Anagrams

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed