bored

English

Etymology

From bore +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɔɹd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: board; baud, bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

bored

1. simple past and past participle of bore

A bored woman selling souvenirs in Moscow.

Adjective

bored (comparative more bored or boreder, superlative most bored or boredest)

1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

   The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.

   • 2006 October 3, Serene Luo, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3:

     [Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.

2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

Derived terms

• be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
• boredly
• boredness
• smoothbored
• unbored

(Expressions):

• bored out of one's brains
• bored out of one's mind
• bored out of one's tree
• bored stiff
• bored shitless
• bored to tears

Related terms

• bore, bore out
• boredom
• boring
• unbore

Translations

suffering from boredom

• Ainu: ミㇱム (mismu)
• Arabic: مَلُول m (malūl), ضَجِر (ar) m (ḍajir)

  Hijazi Arabic: طفشان (ṭafšān), زهقان (zahgān)

  South Levantine Arabic: زهقان (zahqān, zahʔān)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: aspertuta (adverb)
• Belarusian: які́ ну́дзіцца (jakí núdzicca)
• Bulgarian: отегче́н (bg) pf (otegčén), скуча́ещ (bg) (skučáešt)
• Catalan: avorrit (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 悶 / 闷 (mun⁶)

  Mandarin: 厭煩 / 厌烦 (zh) (yànfán), 無聊 / 无聊 (zh) (wúliáo)

• Czech: znuděný
• Danish: kede
• Dutch: verveeld (nl)
• Esperanto: enua, enui (eo) (predicative with the person bored in the nominative)
• Finnish: tylsistynyt (fi), kyllästynyt (fi)
• French: ennuyé (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: gelangweilt (de)
• Greek: τρυπημένος (el) (trypiménos), βαριεστημένος (el) (variestiménos)
• Hebrew: משועמם (mesho'amam)
• Hungarian: (adjective): unott (hu), unatkozó (hu), (verb): unatkozik (hu)
• Indonesian: bosan (id)
• Italian: annoiato (it), scocciato (it)
• Japanese: 退屈した (ja) (たいくつした, taikutsu shita)
• Kabuverdianu: enfadadu
• Khmer: ខ្ជេញ (km) (khcɨñ), នឿយណាយ (km) (nɨəy naay), ធុញ (km) (thuñ)
• Korean: 심심하다 (ko) (simsimhada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بێزار (bêzar)

• Malay: bosan (ms)
• Maori: hongehongeā, hokehokeā, takeo
• Marathi: कंटाळलेला (kaṇṭāḷlelā)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: bił hodiikʼąąd
• Norwegian: kjed
• Polish: znudzony (pl)
• Portuguese: aborrecido (pt), chateado (pt), entediado (pt)
• Romanian: plictisit (ro)
• Russian: скуча́ющий (ru) (skučájuščij), ску́чно (ru) (skúčno) (predicative with the person bored in dative)
• Slovene: zdolgočasen
• Spanish: aburrido (es), embolado (es)
• Swedish: uttråkad (sv)
• Tagalog: kakatamad
• Thai: เบื่อ (th) (bʉ̀ʉa)
• Tày: bứa
• Ukrainian: нудьгу́ючий (nudʹhújučyj)
• Vietnamese: chán (vi)
• Winnebago: horušʼak

See also

• ennui
• ennuyé

Anagrams

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed