boring

¹

[ bawr-ing ]

adjective

1. causing or marked by boredom; dull and uninteresting; tiresome: to have a boring time.

   a boring discussion;

   to have a boring time.

   Synonyms: tedious, tiresome, dull

boring

²

[ bawr-ing, bohr- ]

noun

1. Machinery.
   1. the act or process of making or enlarging a hole.
   2. the hole so made.
2. Geology. a cylindrical sample of earth strata obtained by boring a vertical hole.
3. borings, the chips, fragments, or dust produced in boring.

boring

¹

/ ˈbɔːrɪŋ /

adjective

1. dull; repetitious; uninteresting

boring

²

/ ˈbɔːrɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. the act or process of making or enlarging a hole
   2. the hole made in this way
2. often plural a fragment, particle, chip, etc, produced during boring

Derived Forms

• ˈboringly, adverb

Other Words From

• bor·ing·ly adverb
• bor·ing·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of boring¹

First recorded in 1835–45; bore ¹ + -ing ²

Origin of boring²

First recorded in 1400–50; bore ² + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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From FiveThirtyEight

Weismann also said he expects that retail will return and people will shop in-store again, but for brands that have a “boring store experience,” they will need to rethink that decision.

From Digiday

If not, then this is just a brief respite in the long, slow boring death of global macro.

From Ozy

Believe it or not, plain old boring jQuery is still a far more appropriate choice for most static sites than Gatsby.

From Search Engine Land

In nearly every case, contraction swiftly produced a universe as boring as ours.

From Quanta Magazine

So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.

From The Daily Beast

“It's super boring to see people sit around and draw grids all day,” show host Ryan Devlin host explained on a reddit AMA.

From The Daily Beast

It boasted a star-studded cast, including Allison Williams and Christopher Walken, but ended up being pretty boring.

From The Daily Beast

Both are stale and boring, and whichever one you end up having in the end is still unpleasant.

From The Daily Beast

I love living in the country but, to be totally honest, the long, cold, dark winter can be seriously boring.

From The Daily Beast

Trevithick was equally ready with the application of steam-power either for pumping of water or for boring and removing rock.

From Project Gutenberg

Trevithick's high-pressure steam boring engine enabled him to penetrate the rock five times as fast as the quarryman's power.

From Project Gutenberg

Many years afterwards precisely similar bits for boring wood were patented as new things, and are still used.

From Project Gutenberg

After boring for ten hours in the worst of the tremendous sea, he saw a vessel to leeward of him, flying signals of distress.

From Project Gutenberg

The machines for drilling and boring are the best that money can buy, and the operatives the most skilful to be found anywhere.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• dull
• humdrum
• lifeless
• monotonous
• mundane
• stale
• stodgy
• stuffy
• stupid
• tame
• tedious
• tiresome
• tiring
• trite
• uninteresting