boring

¹

[ bawr-ing ]

adjective

1. causing or marked by boredom; dull and uninteresting; tiresome: to have a boring time.

   a boring discussion;

   to have a boring time.

   Synonyms: tedious, tiresome, dull

boring

²

[ bawr-ing, bohr- ]

noun

1. Machinery.
   1. the act or process of making or enlarging a hole.
   2. the hole so made.
2. Geology. a cylindrical sample of earth strata obtained by boring a vertical hole.
3. borings, the chips, fragments, or dust produced in boring.

boring

¹

/ ˈbɔːrɪŋ /

adjective

1. dull; repetitious; uninteresting

boring

²

/ ˈbɔːrɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. the act or process of making or enlarging a hole
   2. the hole made in this way
2. often plural a fragment, particle, chip, etc, produced during boring

Derived Forms

• ˈboringly, adverb

Other Words From

• bor·ing·ly adverb
• bor·ing·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of boring¹

First recorded in 1835–45; bore ¹ + -ing ²

Origin of boring²

First recorded in 1400–50; bore ² + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Toobin said live, on CNN, that the pair would have limited success because “there is a very boring and very important law called the Administrative Procedures Act, which governs how the government moves along in terms of changing how it works.”

From Salon

Fed up with Los Angeles traffic, Elon Musk launched The Boring Co. with two tweets in 2016, promising “to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.”

From Los Angeles Times

However, at Trump’s urging, congressional representatives could earmark local transportation projects to the benefit of Boring Co., though the company would still have to compete to win them, said Greg Griffin, a former urban planning professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, who studied that city’s proposed Boring Co. project.

From Los Angeles Times

“The argument had to be fire but not a volcano. A volcano would be she’s completely erupted and now there’s nowhere to go, and as an actor it’s just boring, and I would feel like I’d failed at my job,” Lynch says.

From Los Angeles Times

"My daughter looked at me with sad eyes and asked: 'Dad, why isn't anyone singing? Why isn't there any drums? This is boring'," Sandstrom remembers.

From BBC

Related Words

• dull
• humdrum
• lifeless
• monotonous
• mundane
• stale
• stodgy
• stuffy
• stupid
• tame
• tedious
• tiresome
• tiring
• trite
• uninteresting