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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

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

The family was Protestant , but for me it was only irksome and I let it go .

Related terms

uninteresting

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