Definition of boring in English:

boring

adjective ˈbɔːrɪŋˈbɔrɪŋ

Not interesting; tedious.
令人厌烦的，令人厌倦的；乏味的，无聊的
I've got a boring job in an office
我找到了一份乏味的办公室工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- Australia is perhaps only weeks away from elections for a new federal government, yet we see the usual lacklustre, boring politics.
- And our loved ones become boring, tedious, unexciting and uninteresting.
- This year's awards seemed particularly tedious and boring.
- And the most frustratingly time-consuming and boring job, one which I really loath, is shaving.
- These jobs tend to be boring, repetitive, or physically hard.
- Most people are dreading it, convinced that the sessions will be tediously boring.
- Do I really want to spend my days doing tedious, exhausting, boring work?
- He becomes obnoxious, repetitive, boring, tedious.
- But it was the same monotonous boring routine each day.
- He looks remarkably cheerful for what must be a mind-numbingly boring job.
- Maybe your boring office job is frustrating you to the point of complete despair.
- She can transform the most boring plot into an interesting and informative story, which can hold the attention of any child.
- The dull grey of the rain was making the normally interesting boring and unexciting.
- Tired of boring old beige or grey peripherals for your computer?
- But studies have shown that children are made to do boring, repetitive and tedious jobs and are not taught new skills as they grow older.
- In Good Company takes its time to build up, with Paul Weitz's firm directorial grip ensuring that it is slow without being tedious or boring.
- No drug can get the boss off your back, shorten your hours, get you more money or make a boring partner suddenly interesting.
- He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters.
- Looking for a way out of your boring and tedious job?
- It turns out that randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or boring and uneventful simplicity.
Synonyms
tedious, dull, monotonous
repetitious, repetitive
unrelieved, lacking variety, lacking variation, lacking excitement, lacking interest, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful, characterless, featureless, colourless, lifeless, soulless, passionless, spiritless, unspirited, insipid, uninteresting, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, unoriginal, derivative, jejune, nondescript, sterile, flat, bland, (plain) vanilla, arid, dry, dry as dust, stale, wishy-washy, grey, anaemic, tired, banal, lame, plodding, ponderous, pedestrian, lacklustre, stodgy, dreary, mechanical, stiff, leaden, wooden
mind-numbing, soul-destroying, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, trying, frustrating
humdrum, prosaic, mundane, commonplace, workaday, quotidian, unremarkable, routine, run-of-the-mill, normal, usual, ordinary, conventional, suburban
North American garden variety
informal deadly, bog-standard, nothing to write home about, a dime a dozen, no great shakes, not up to much
British informal samey, common or garden
North American informal dullsville, ornery

Derivatives

boringly

adverbˈbɔːrɪŋliˈbôriNGlē

as submodifier my boringly respectable uncle
我那位正派得乏味的叔叔。
Example sentencesExamples
- Anyway, it's boringly easy to list the sillinesses of this idea.
- He also complains that special advisers, political appointees of ministers, are taking too many decisions at the expense of civil servants who may produce boringly inconvenient arguments.
- The questions by now were boringly repetitious and predictable, but they had to be answered, patiently, honestly, candidly.
- It was my territory: wilder, more interesting, less boringly formal, where I could indulge my already fertile imagination, and lose myself in elaborate fantasies.
- He argues that ‘one doesn't want to be boringly predictable, but one should be consistent’; there ought to be about four parts predictability to one part innovation, he says.
- It's one day until the Christmas Celebration at Brixington in which I'm being a soldier, but it's four days until I get the train back from boringly mild Exeter to freezing Loughborough and it's only nine days until Christmas.
- Aside from that, she's getting clothes and books from us—clothes because, boringly but truly, she needs them, and books because she will always get books from me, every birthday and every Christmas, her whole life.
- I was reading an article the other day in an old film magazine I had lying around which listed the top one hundred best scenes in film and while most were undoubted classics it was boringly predictable.
- The first two prequels were dominated by intergalactic council meetings, trade embargoes, boringly samey action and needlessly complicated plotting, all of which suggests that three films could easily have become one.
- Perhaps because our everyday choices are so limited and our creative impulses so stifled, we embrace the abnormal because everything else is so boringly predictable.
- There, even the most pedestrian of clubs would break the boringly fashionable pattern of faux-punk and Europop with interludes of flamenco.
- When I became involved they weren't very open, but kept banging on rather boringly about the same old stuff.
- I had a boringly respectable career as an actor, you know, but at the age of 30 I just stopped very, very abruptly and it was fine, and I haven't acted since.
- For instance, Prokofiev's boringly patriotic 1945 opera adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace was taken as using the dramatic defeat of Napoleon in 1812 as an allegory for the Red Army's recent repulsion of the Nazis.
- Yet, in comparison to the competition, it is boringly ordinary: it's not as intellectually sound as recent academic studies, and it's not as interesting as the popular histories.
- He played Chad, a boringly handsome corporate frat boy and hateful emotional fascist who concocts a viciously cruel sexual power game to devastate an unsuspecting handicapped woman from lower down the company food chain.
- Where once ballet slippers, car shoes, moccasins and brogues were once boringly themselves, now they've somehow interbred, jollied up and produced a new generation of lightened-up fashion ideas.
- Applications eventually settled into that standard OS look and feel (Mac, Windows, Unix) which was boringly similar because it needed to be consistent and therefore useable.
- She admits, ‘I had the most boringly ordinary life, growing up in Dayton.’
- As electioneering begins, pollsters are busy questioning voters about their priorities with boringly predictable lists: the economy, health, education and crime.

boringness

noun

I'd driven the poor chap over the edge of biographical desperation with my stark boringness.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a game of surpassing, even brilliant, boringness and I dare say I'm one of only a few thousand native-born American citizens who can follow its soporific plotlines.
- I did do a long one but it was just loads of complaining about something someone said on a message bored—I've decided to save my readers the boringness of that.
- Now, brilliantly, or duplicitously, or frighteningly, Fox has given its critique of boringness and complacency and sameness a right-wing argot.
- Many have fought for a concert hall to benefit nostalgic Europhiles oblivious to the boringness of classical music.
- And even they might wonder how a fast-moving serial could be transformed into what looks like a two-hour music video of intense boringness.
- The boringness of a town seems the whole point—it's precisely that regularity, that continuity, that we desire, that causes us to stay in a place for a period of time.
- Burnley is conveniently located near Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, and Blackburn so despite the boringness that is Burnley, there is plenty to do outside of the town.
- There are indications of a backlash against boringness.
- But our boringness means we have a more reasoned approach to thinking about issues.
- So anyway, Gary was telling me that it had taken him a long, long time to come to terms with his boringness.
- But its ordinariness and even boringness only make me like it more; ordinary places where extraordinary events have occurred are my favorite kind.
- I'd been much, much less attracted by what is perhaps the more public face of philosophy, which is its abstruseness, its complexity, its boringness even.
- I think if anyone tried to make a comic about the first two years of med school, the comic strip would spontaneously combust due to the mind-numbing boringness of the subject matter.
- I just knew that underneath all the dirt and grime and everyday boringness of life, there were things happening that only those who possessed a certain magic could see.
- The celebrated description of Waterloo with which the novel opens is a large-scale demonstration of the boringness of war and has been described as one of the earliest pieces of truthful battle literature in existence.
- Words can't describe the fullness of its awful boringness.
- It was probably really boring to many people, and I apologise for the boringness.
- They resort to doing shocking things to cover up this boringness.
- I'm inclined to think boringness is a big complex interactive mix of inherent tendencies and acquired attributes.

Rhymes

flooring, Goring, riproaring, roaring, scoring, shoring

Definition of boring in US English:

boring

adjectiveˈbɔrɪŋˈbôriNG

Not interesting; tedious.
令人厌烦的，令人厌倦的；乏味的，无聊的
I've got a boring job in an office
我找到了一份乏味的办公室工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- And the most frustratingly time-consuming and boring job, one which I really loath, is shaving.
- In Good Company takes its time to build up, with Paul Weitz's firm directorial grip ensuring that it is slow without being tedious or boring.
- Tired of boring old beige or grey peripherals for your computer?
- He becomes obnoxious, repetitive, boring, tedious.
- Looking for a way out of your boring and tedious job?
- No drug can get the boss off your back, shorten your hours, get you more money or make a boring partner suddenly interesting.
- Australia is perhaps only weeks away from elections for a new federal government, yet we see the usual lacklustre, boring politics.
- He looks remarkably cheerful for what must be a mind-numbingly boring job.
- But studies have shown that children are made to do boring, repetitive and tedious jobs and are not taught new skills as they grow older.
- Most people are dreading it, convinced that the sessions will be tediously boring.
- And our loved ones become boring, tedious, unexciting and uninteresting.
- The dull grey of the rain was making the normally interesting boring and unexciting.
- It turns out that randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or boring and uneventful simplicity.
- Maybe your boring office job is frustrating you to the point of complete despair.
- He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters.
- This year's awards seemed particularly tedious and boring.
- She can transform the most boring plot into an interesting and informative story, which can hold the attention of any child.
- Do I really want to spend my days doing tedious, exhausting, boring work?
- But it was the same monotonous boring routine each day.
- These jobs tend to be boring, repetitive, or physically hard.
Synonyms
tedious, dull, monotonous

词汇	boring
释义	Definition of boring in English: boring adjective ˈbɔːrɪŋˈbɔrɪŋ Not interesting; tedious. 令人厌烦的，令人厌倦的；乏味的，无聊的 I've got a boring job in an office 我找到了一份乏味的办公室工作。 Example sentencesExamples Australia is perhaps only weeks away from elections for a new federal government, yet we see the usual lacklustre, boring politics. And our loved ones become boring, tedious, unexciting and uninteresting. This year's awards seemed particularly tedious and boring. And the most frustratingly time-consuming and boring job, one which I really loath, is shaving. These jobs tend to be boring, repetitive, or physically hard. Most people are dreading it, convinced that the sessions will be tediously boring. Do I really want to spend my days doing tedious, exhausting, boring work? He becomes obnoxious, repetitive, boring, tedious. But it was the same monotonous boring routine each day. He looks remarkably cheerful for what must be a mind-numbingly boring job. Maybe your boring office job is frustrating you to the point of complete despair. She can transform the most boring plot into an interesting and informative story, which can hold the attention of any child. The dull grey of the rain was making the normally interesting boring and unexciting. Tired of boring old beige or grey peripherals for your computer? But studies have shown that children are made to do boring, repetitive and tedious jobs and are not taught new skills as they grow older. In Good Company takes its time to build up, with Paul Weitz's firm directorial grip ensuring that it is slow without being tedious or boring. No drug can get the boss off your back, shorten your hours, get you more money or make a boring partner suddenly interesting. He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters. Looking for a way out of your boring and tedious job? It turns out that randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or boring and uneventful simplicity. Synonyms tedious, dull, monotonous repetitious, repetitive unrelieved, lacking variety, lacking variation, lacking excitement, lacking interest, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful, characterless, featureless, colourless, lifeless, soulless, passionless, spiritless, unspirited, insipid, uninteresting, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, unoriginal, derivative, jejune, nondescript, sterile, flat, bland, (plain) vanilla, arid, dry, dry as dust, stale, wishy-washy, grey, anaemic, tired, banal, lame, plodding, ponderous, pedestrian, lacklustre, stodgy, dreary, mechanical, stiff, leaden, wooden mind-numbing, soul-destroying, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, trying, frustrating humdrum, prosaic, mundane, commonplace, workaday, quotidian, unremarkable, routine, run-of-the-mill, normal, usual, ordinary, conventional, suburban North American garden variety informal deadly, bog-standard, nothing to write home about, a dime a dozen, no great shakes, not up to much British informal samey, common or garden North American informal dullsville, ornery Derivatives boringly adverbˈbɔːrɪŋliˈbôriNGlē as submodifier my boringly respectable uncle 我那位正派得乏味的叔叔。 Example sentencesExamples Anyway, it's boringly easy to list the sillinesses of this idea. He also complains that special advisers, political appointees of ministers, are taking too many decisions at the expense of civil servants who may produce boringly inconvenient arguments. The questions by now were boringly repetitious and predictable, but they had to be answered, patiently, honestly, candidly. It was my territory: wilder, more interesting, less boringly formal, where I could indulge my already fertile imagination, and lose myself in elaborate fantasies. He argues that ‘one doesn't want to be boringly predictable, but one should be consistent’; there ought to be about four parts predictability to one part innovation, he says. It's one day until the Christmas Celebration at Brixington in which I'm being a soldier, but it's four days until I get the train back from boringly mild Exeter to freezing Loughborough and it's only nine days until Christmas. Aside from that, she's getting clothes and books from us—clothes because, boringly but truly, she needs them, and books because she will always get books from me, every birthday and every Christmas, her whole life. I was reading an article the other day in an old film magazine I had lying around which listed the top one hundred best scenes in film and while most were undoubted classics it was boringly predictable. The first two prequels were dominated by intergalactic council meetings, trade embargoes, boringly samey action and needlessly complicated plotting, all of which suggests that three films could easily have become one. Perhaps because our everyday choices are so limited and our creative impulses so stifled, we embrace the abnormal because everything else is so boringly predictable. There, even the most pedestrian of clubs would break the boringly fashionable pattern of faux-punk and Europop with interludes of flamenco. When I became involved they weren't very open, but kept banging on rather boringly about the same old stuff. I had a boringly respectable career as an actor, you know, but at the age of 30 I just stopped very, very abruptly and it was fine, and I haven't acted since. For instance, Prokofiev's boringly patriotic 1945 opera adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace was taken as using the dramatic defeat of Napoleon in 1812 as an allegory for the Red Army's recent repulsion of the Nazis. Yet, in comparison to the competition, it is boringly ordinary: it's not as intellectually sound as recent academic studies, and it's not as interesting as the popular histories. He played Chad, a boringly handsome corporate frat boy and hateful emotional fascist who concocts a viciously cruel sexual power game to devastate an unsuspecting handicapped woman from lower down the company food chain. Where once ballet slippers, car shoes, moccasins and brogues were once boringly themselves, now they've somehow interbred, jollied up and produced a new generation of lightened-up fashion ideas. Applications eventually settled into that standard OS look and feel (Mac, Windows, Unix) which was boringly similar because it needed to be consistent and therefore useable. She admits, ‘I had the most boringly ordinary life, growing up in Dayton.’ As electioneering begins, pollsters are busy questioning voters about their priorities with boringly predictable lists: the economy, health, education and crime. boringness noun I'd driven the poor chap over the edge of biographical desperation with my stark boringness. Example sentencesExamples It's a game of surpassing, even brilliant, boringness and I dare say I'm one of only a few thousand native-born American citizens who can follow its soporific plotlines. I did do a long one but it was just loads of complaining about something someone said on a message bored—I've decided to save my readers the boringness of that. Now, brilliantly, or duplicitously, or frighteningly, Fox has given its critique of boringness and complacency and sameness a right-wing argot. Many have fought for a concert hall to benefit nostalgic Europhiles oblivious to the boringness of classical music. And even they might wonder how a fast-moving serial could be transformed into what looks like a two-hour music video of intense boringness. The boringness of a town seems the whole point—it's precisely that regularity, that continuity, that we desire, that causes us to stay in a place for a period of time. Burnley is conveniently located near Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, and Blackburn so despite the boringness that is Burnley, there is plenty to do outside of the town. There are indications of a backlash against boringness. But our boringness means we have a more reasoned approach to thinking about issues. So anyway, Gary was telling me that it had taken him a long, long time to come to terms with his boringness. But its ordinariness and even boringness only make me like it more; ordinary places where extraordinary events have occurred are my favorite kind. I'd been much, much less attracted by what is perhaps the more public face of philosophy, which is its abstruseness, its complexity, its boringness even. I think if anyone tried to make a comic about the first two years of med school, the comic strip would spontaneously combust due to the mind-numbing boringness of the subject matter. I just knew that underneath all the dirt and grime and everyday boringness of life, there were things happening that only those who possessed a certain magic could see. The celebrated description of Waterloo with which the novel opens is a large-scale demonstration of the boringness of war and has been described as one of the earliest pieces of truthful battle literature in existence. Words can't describe the fullness of its awful boringness. It was probably really boring to many people, and I apologise for the boringness. They resort to doing shocking things to cover up this boringness. I'm inclined to think boringness is a big complex interactive mix of inherent tendencies and acquired attributes. Rhymes flooring, Goring, riproaring, roaring, scoring, shoring Definition of boring in US English: boring adjectiveˈbɔrɪŋˈbôriNG Not interesting; tedious. 令人厌烦的，令人厌倦的；乏味的，无聊的 I've got a boring job in an office 我找到了一份乏味的办公室工作。 Example sentencesExamples And the most frustratingly time-consuming and boring job, one which I really loath, is shaving. In Good Company takes its time to build up, with Paul Weitz's firm directorial grip ensuring that it is slow without being tedious or boring. Tired of boring old beige or grey peripherals for your computer? He becomes obnoxious, repetitive, boring, tedious. Looking for a way out of your boring and tedious job? No drug can get the boss off your back, shorten your hours, get you more money or make a boring partner suddenly interesting. Australia is perhaps only weeks away from elections for a new federal government, yet we see the usual lacklustre, boring politics. He looks remarkably cheerful for what must be a mind-numbingly boring job. But studies have shown that children are made to do boring, repetitive and tedious jobs and are not taught new skills as they grow older. Most people are dreading it, convinced that the sessions will be tediously boring. And our loved ones become boring, tedious, unexciting and uninteresting. The dull grey of the rain was making the normally interesting boring and unexciting. It turns out that randomly selected laws lead almost inevitably either to unrelieved chaos or boring and uneventful simplicity. Maybe your boring office job is frustrating you to the point of complete despair. He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters. This year's awards seemed particularly tedious and boring. She can transform the most boring plot into an interesting and informative story, which can hold the attention of any child. Do I really want to spend my days doing tedious, exhausting, boring work? But it was the same monotonous boring routine each day. These jobs tend to be boring, repetitive, or physically hard. Synonyms tedious, dull, monotonous
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