boring

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔːrɪŋ

Noun

boring (plural borings)

1. 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.

Verb

boring

1. Present participle of bore.

Adjective

boring (comparative more boring, superlative most boring)

1. That which incites boredom in a person.

Synonyms

• dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious
• See also Wikisaurus:boring

Related terms

• bore
• bored
• boredom

Translations

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) Croatian: dȍsādan (hr) Czech: nudný (cs) m. Danish: kedelig (da) Dutch: saai (nl) Finnish: tylsä (1), tylsistyttävä (1) French: ennuyeux (fr) m., ennuyeuse (fr) f., barbant (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: langweilig (de) Greek: βαρετός (el), πληκτικός (el), ανιαρός (el) Hebrew: משעמם (mesha'amem) m., משעממת (mesha'amemet) f. Hungarian: unalmas (hu)

Icelandic: leiðinlegur (is) Ido: enoyiganta, enoyigiva 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) Korean: 무료한 (ko) (muryohan), 지루하다 (ko) (jiru-hada) Lojban: to'e cinri Luxembourgish: langweileg (lb) Norwegian: kjedelig (no), kjedsommelig (no) Persian: کسل کننده (kesel-konandeh) ملال آور (malaal-aavar) Polish: nudny (pl) Portuguese: entediante, enfadonho adj, chato (pt), maçante (pt) Russian: скучный (ru) (skúčnyj, skúšnyj), нудный (ru) (núdnyj) Scottish Gaelic: liosta (gd) Slovene: dolgočasen m., dolgočasna f., dolgočasno n. Spanish: aburrido (es) Swedish: tråkig (sv) Turkish: sıkıcı (tr)

Anagrams

• orbing
• robing

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Dutch

Etymology

From bor (“stem of boren”) +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Belgium)

  boring

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Noun

boring f. (^??? please provide the plural!, diminutive borinkje)

1. drilling

   offshoreboring — offshore drilling