bored
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A bored woman selling souvenirs in Moscow.
English
Etymology
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/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
- Homophones: board; baud, bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Verb
bored
- simple past and past participle of bore
Adjective
bored (comparative more bored or boreder, superlative most bored or boredest)
- Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- 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, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3:
- ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.
- Perforated by a hole or holes.
Derived terms
(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
Translations
suffering from boredom
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