# bored

Pronunciation: US say "BORD" /bɔɹd/; UK say "BAWD" /bɔːd/

## Adjective

1. Restless and mildly annoyed because there is nothing to do or nothing that holds one's interest.
   - Simple: Feeling restless and a little annoyed because you have nothing to do.
   - _By the third hour of the conference, half the audience looked bored._
   - _Bored employees tend to drift toward their phones instead of their work._
3. Having one or more holes extending through it.
   - Simple: Having a hole or holes made through it, often with a drill.
   - _Sap dripped steadily from the bored trunk of the maple._
   - _Each bored panel was fitted with a small brass grommet._

## Verb

2. Past tense and past participle of bore. — simple past and past participle of bore
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of bore. Use this form when the action already happened, or after words like 'have' or 'was'.
   - _Engineers bored a tunnel through the hillside last spring._
   - _The movie had bored him long before the intermission._

## Origin

Formed from the verb "bore" with the ending "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bored (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).