bored

English

Etymology

bore +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• IPA^(key): /bɔːɹd/
• IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• IPA^(key): /boəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophone: board; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

bored

1. simple past and past participle of bore

A bored woman selling souvenirs in Moscow.

Adjective

bored (comparative more bored, superlative most bored)

1. suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do
2. uninterested, without attention

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

3. perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

Translations

suffering from boredom

• Arabic: مُلُول (mulūl)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: які́ ну́дзіцца (jakí núdzicca)
• Bulgarian: отегчен (bg) pf (otegčen), скуча̀ещ (bg) (skučàešt)
• Catalan: avorrit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 悶／闷 (mun⁶)

  Mandarin: 厭煩／厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 無聊／无聊 (zh) (wúliáo), 无聊 (zh) (wúliáo)

• Czech: znuděný
• Danish: kede
• Dutch: verveeld (nl)
• Esperanto: enui (eo) (predicative with the person bored in the nominative)
• Finnish: tylsistynyt (fi), kyllästynyt (fi)
• French: ennuyé (fr) m, ennuyée (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: gelangweilt (de)
• Greek: τρυπημένος (el) (trypiménos), βαριεστημένος (el) (variestiménos)
• Hebrew: משועמם m (mesho'amam), משועממת f (meshu'amemet)
• Hungarian: (adjective): unott (hu), unatkozó (hu), (verb): unatkozik (hu)
• Italian: annoiato (it), scocciato (it)
• Japanese: 退屈した (ja) (たいくつした, taikutsu shita)
• Kabuverdianu: enfadadu
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• Khmer: ខ្ជេញ (km) (kcɨɲ), នឿយណាយ (km) (nɨəy naay), ធុញ (km) (tʰuɲ)
• Korean: 심심하다 (ko) (simsimhada)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Malay: bosan
• Maori: hongehongeā, hokehokeā
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: bił hodiikʼąąd
• Norwegian: kjed
• Polish: znudzony (pl) m
• 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)
• Swedish: uttråkad (sv)
• Tagalog: kakatamad
• Thai: เบื่อ (th) (bʉ̀ʉa)
• Ukrainian: нудьгу́ючий (nudʹhújučyj)
• Vietnamese: chán (vi)
• Winnebago: horušʼak

Related terms

• bore
• boredom
• boring

Anagrams

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed