bored
Often confused with boring
- 1Feeling restless and a little annoyed because you have nothing to do.
Like sitting in a long, slow line with nothing to look at.
The kids got bored during the long car ride.
I was bored at home, so I called a friend.
Similaruninterested, restless, listless, weary
Oppositeinterested, engaged, excited, absorbed
Note
- 2Past tense and past participle of bore. Use this form when the action already happened, or after words like 'have' or 'was'.
The workers bored a deep hole in the rock.
The long speech bored everyone at the party.
Note
- 3Having a hole or holes made through it, often with a drill.
Water dripped through the bored plank into the bucket below.
He pushed the rope through the bored block of wood.
Similarperforated, pierced, holed
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bored is a form of bore
bore, verb: To make someone feel bored because something is dull. Full entry
- Spelling
- bore → bored: add -d
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Origin
Made from the word "bore" plus "-ed".