Crossword clues for bored
bored
- Affected by ennui
- Watching the clock, perhaps
- Ready to do something else
- In need of stimulation
- Having nothing to do
- Far from interested
- Apt to doodle, perhaps
- Yearning for a diversion
- Yawning in class, say
- Yawning in class, maybe
- Yawning during a meeting, say
- Used a drill
- Twiddling one's thumbs, perhaps
- Tearing up, perhaps?
- Susceptible to yawns
- Stifling a yawn, maybe
- Ready to try something else
- Ready to go home
- Not currently engaged?
- Not at all engaged
- Nodding off in class, say
- Nodding off at a meeting, say
- No longer absorbed
- More than ready for what's next
- Looking to start something new, maybe
- In need of mental stimulation
- Having zero interest, say
- Hardly absorbed
- Feeling at subpar show
- Feeling at so-so show
- Far from excited
- Extremely uninterested
- Doodling, say
- Doodling during class, say
- Doodling away, maybe
- Doing a crossword puzzle while at work, say
- Deftones song about not being excited?
- Definitely looking for some excitement
- Caused to yawn
- Black Label Society "___ to Tears"
- Yawning?
- Not excited
- Tired of it all
- ___ stiff
- Sick and tired
- BlasГ©
- Ready for a change
- Feeling ho-hum
- Yet to be engaged?
- Not engaged
- Told stale jokes
- Afflicted with ennui
- Used a gimlet
- Feeling ennui
- Used an auger
- World-weary
- Not absorbed
- Suffering from ennui
- Drilled
- Overcome by ennui
- "Underwhelmed"
- Lost in tedium
- Caused yawns
- Enduring ennui
- Wearied by tedium
- Not interested in meals being delivered?
- Fed up — tired of the world
- Reportedly the management is not interested
- Brassed off
- Upset with neglect of the sick
- Yawning, perhaps
- In a rut
- Suffering ennui
- Not at all interested
- Ready for something new
- Filled with ennui
- Yawning, maybe
- Not at all excited
- Made holes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bored \bored\ adj. tired of the world; bored with life.
Syn: world-weary.
2. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence. Opposite of interested.
Syn: blase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, past participle adjective from bore (v.) in the figurative sense.\n\nSociety is now one polished horde,\n
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.\n
[Byron, "Don Juan," 1823]
Wiktionary
1 suffering from boredom 2 uninterested, without attention 3 perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other) v
(en-past of: bore)
WordNet
adj. tired of the world; "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air" [syn: world-weary]
uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulent blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star" [syn: blase]
Wikipedia
Bored is the past tense of the verb to bore; meaning either to cause boredom, or to drill a hole or passage through something.
Bored may also refer to:
Usage examples of "bored".
This must have been one of his bored days, spent wandering aimlessly through the house with an occasional pause to glance over some possession of his before he grew tired of it and began wandering again.
A young, bored, anorexic girl flicked the pages of a Simone De Beauvoir novel.
Maeve seemed strangely interested in the intricacies of the Mac Ard genealogy and asked several questions, but Jenna was bored.
The horse swiveled a bored eye at Gareth, shook its neck, then nuzzled Argot, hoping for an apple.
Sarabande had eclectic tastes, but she was easily bored, especially when biz awaited.
Pontswain seemed to pale slightly as the black eyes of the Calishite bored into his own.
Until Cavin, Jana assumed the concept of aliens visiting Earth was the invention of really bored people with low-quality cameras living in remote parts of New Mexico and Nevada.
Esco had used the fence for hitching rack, and the pointed tops of the palings had been cribbed away to splintered nubs by bored horses.
She was becoming bored again with the return to Davina as a subject, and poor Mary Walker standing guard over her property in case he was lured away.
I was getting bored, and Desarmoises, who had all his meals with me, did not know what to do.
The poor bastard who sat there listening to me talking to Esmerelda about her grandchildren, talking to my roommates about which movie we should go see, explaining to reporters the difference between dioxin and dioxane - he must have been bored out of his mind.
Rather, he was a temporary divertisement, a charming, quick, and complete roll in the hay for the bored.
I am less often bored than I was in childhood between dull game and duller book.
She remained ensconced in her armchair, still reading, with a weary, bored expression on her anaemic countenance.
She faltered, remembering how quickly others got bored when she got caught up in cycles and epicycles, conjunctions and precession, the endlessly intriguing wonder of the universe.