bored

English

Etymology

From bore +‎ -ed.

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/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: board; baud, bawd (non-rhotic, 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.

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

2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

Derived terms

• be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
• boredly
• boredness
• smoothbored
• unbored

(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

• bore, bore out
• boredom
• boring
• unbore

Translations

suffering from boredom

Ainu: ミㇱム (mismu) Arabic: مَلُول m (malūl), ضَجِر (ar) m (ḍajir) Hijazi Arabic: طفشان (ṭafšān), زهقان (zahgān) South Levantine Arabic: زهقان (zahqān, zahʔān) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Basque: aspertuta (adverb) Belarusian: які́ ну́дзіцца (jakí núdzicca) Bulgarian: отегче́н (bg) pf (otegčén), скуча́ещ (bg) (skučáešt) Catalan: avorrit (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 悶／闷 (mun6) Mandarin: 厭煩／厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 無聊／无聊 (zh) (wúliáo) Czech: znuděný Danish: kede Dutch: verveeld (nl) Esperanto: enua, enui (eo) (predicative with the person bored in the nominative) Finnish: tylsistynyt (fi), kyllästynyt (fi) French: ennuyé (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: gelangweilt (de) Greek: τρυπημένος (el) (trypiménos), βαριεστημένος (el) (variestiménos) Hebrew: משועמם (mesho'amam) Hungarian: (adjective): unott (hu), unatkozó (hu), (verb): unatkozik (hu) Indonesian: bosan (id) Italian: annoiato (it), scocciato (it) Japanese: 退屈した (ja) (たいくつした, taikutsu shita) Kabuverdianu: enfadadu Khmer: ខ្ជេញ (km) (khcɨñ), នឿយណាយ (km) (nɨəy naay), ធុញ (km) (thuñ) Korean: 심심하다 (ko) (simsimhada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بێزار (bêzar) Malay: bosan (ms) Maori: hongehongeā, hokehokeā, takeo Marathi: कंटाळलेला m (kaṇṭāḷlelā), कंटाळलेले n (kaṇṭāḷlele), कंटाळलेली f (kaṇṭāḷlelī) Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Navajo: bił hodiikʼąąd Norwegian: kjed Polish: znudzony (pl) 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), embolado (es) Swedish: uttråkad (sv) Tagalog: kakatamad Thai: เบื่อ (th) (bʉ̀ʉa) Tày: bứa Ukrainian: нудьгу́ючий (nudʹhújučyj) Vietnamese: chán (vi) Winnebago: horušʼak

See also

• ennui
• ennuyé

Anagrams

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed