boring
has definitions from the fields of economics,business
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[ adjective ] so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Examples "a boring evening with uninteresting people" "the deadening effect of some routine tasks" "a dull play" "a ho-hum speaker" "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)He was tired , he had his business worries , and the sight of his wife arranging pork_chops in the broiler only seemed like an extension of a boring day . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)Usually , this was done when attention was diverted by someone else 's long , boring story . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7696
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[ noun ] (economics,business) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
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