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

uninteresting

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[ noun ] the act of drilling

Synonyms

drilling

Related terms

creating_by_removal bore

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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

Related terms

production bore

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