Synonyms for bored

Grammar : Adj

Spell : bawr, bohr

Phonetic Transcription : bɔr, boʊr

Définition of bored

Origin : 1823, past participle adjective from bore (v.) in the figurative sense.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.[Byron, "Don Juan," 1823]

adj uninterested

Example sentences :

As nearly as she would admit, in view of his loss, he bored her with these things.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

I stayed with Alderling nearly a week, and I will own that I bored myself.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

I was bored by the length of the colloquy, and sat down on the table swinging my legs.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

With a gimlet I bored a hole in the floor, through which I passed a piece of string.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

Suppose you get bored with me—as you have with the Liberal party?
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The hand that held it was steady, and the gray eyes that bored into his were hard as pebbles.
Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner

There was, however, this difference between us—that he had been bored with religion and I had not.
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

She must be bored when I'm bored, and keen when I'm keen, and that sort of thing, you know.
Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 » by Various

If she is bored in your company for two minutes on end—you are lost irrevocably.
Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov

We had bored a hole in her; she filled slowly and then all of a sudden disappeared.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

Antonyms for bored

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