English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
boring (plural borings)
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- 1992, J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications, p. 191:
- It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.
boring
- Present participle of bore.
Adjective [edit]
boring (comparative more boring, superlative most boring)
- That which incites boredom in a person.
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Translations [edit]
inciting boredom
- Arabic: ممل (ar) (múmill), مضجر (ar) (múDjir)
- Armenian: ձանձրալի (hy) (janjrali)
- Bulgarian: скучен (bg) (skúčen), досаден (bg) (dosáden)
- Catalan: avorrit (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (formal) 乏味 (cmn) (fáwèi), (informal) 無聊 (cmn), 无聊 (cmn) (wúliáo), (slang) 沒勁 (cmn), 没劲 (cmn) (méijìn)
- Czech: nudný (cs) m
- Danish: kedelig (da)
- Dutch: saai (nl)
- Finnish: tylsä (fi), ikävystyttävä (fi)
- French: ennuyeux (fr) m, ennuyeuse (fr) f, barbant (fr)
- Georgian: მოსაწყენი (ka) (mosacqeni), მოსაბეზრებელი (ka) (mosabezrebeli)
- German: langweilig (de)
- Greek: βαρετός (el) (varetós) m, πληκτικός (el) (pliktikós) m, ανιαρός (el) (aniarós) m
- Hebrew: משעמם (he) (mesha'amem) m, משעממת (he) (mesha'amemet) f
- Hungarian: unalmas (hu)
- Icelandic: leiðinlegur (is)
- Ido: enoyiganta (io), enoyigiva (io)
- Italian: noioso (it) m, noiosa (it) f
- Japanese: つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 退屈な (ja) (たいくつな, taikutsu-na), うんざりさせた (ja) (unzari-saseta)
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- Jèrriais: enn'yant
- Korean: 무료한 (ko) (muryohan), 지루하다 (ko) (jiru-hada)
- Lojban: to'e cinri (jbo)
- Luxembourgish: langweileg (lb)
- Norwegian: kjedelig (no), kjedsommelig (no)
- Persian: کسل کننده (fa) (kesel-konandeh), ملال آور (fa) (malaal-aavar)
- Polish: nudny (pl)
- Portuguese: entediante (pt), enfadonho (pt), chato (pt), maçante (pt)
- Romanian: plictisitor (ro), anost (ro), fastidios (ro)
- Russian: скучный (ru) (skúčnyj, skúšnyj), нудный (ru) (núdnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: liosta (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: dȍsādan (sh)
- Cyrillic: до̏са̄дан (sh)
- Slovene: dolgočásen (sl)
- Spanish: aburrido (es)
- Swedish: tråkig (sv)
- Turkish: sıkıcı (tr)
- Welsh: diflas (cy)
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Anagrams [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From bor (“stem of boren”) + -ing.
Pronunciation [edit]
boring f (plural boringen, diminutive borinkje)
- drilling
- offshoreboring — offshore drilling
- bore of a car's cylinder or canon
