boring

Pronunciation

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Adjective

Positive boring

Comparative more boring

Superlative most boring

1. If something is boring, it is not interesting or makes you want to do something else.

   Go to work, come home, sleep: life is so boring.

   A boring lesson is rarely a useful lesson.

   She's so boring. All she does is talk about clothes all the time.

Synonyms

• dull

Antonyms

• interesting
• exciting

Related words

• bored
• boringly
• boredom

Verb

Plain form bore

Third-person singular bores

Past tense bored

Past participle bored

Present participle boring

1. The present participle of bore.