[ UK /bˈɔːd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɔɹd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
    his blase indifference
    a petulant blase air
    the bored gaze of the successful film star
  2. tired of the world
    bored with life
    strolled through the museum with a bored air
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How To Use bored In A Sentence

  • Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
  • One afternoon, I grew bored and actually fell asleep for a few minutes.
  • She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
  • I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K. 
  • For the viewer or the reader, this can be a pleasant experience, a feeling of ease, without boredom or dullness.
  • No, it's like "And she knew it arbored great things. Glimpse Inside A Writer's Brain
  • I left figurative art because I was bored of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had taken a hard line about any country that harbored terrorists, and by his definition Saddam was a terrorist. Plan of Attack
  • For a long time, corporate executives felt that the Internet was only an academic toy for bored graduate students.
  • his eyes were glazed over with boredom
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