- boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome - so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Antonym: interesting (indirect, via uninteresting)
- drilling, boring - the act of drilling
--1 is a kind of creating by removal
- boring, drilling, oil production - the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
--2 is a kind of production
- bore, tire - cause to be bored
Antonyms: interest
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun bore1
The performance is likely to bore Sue
- bore, drill - make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"
--2 is one way to cut
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun bore3, noun bore4, noun borer1, noun borer2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something