bored

From bore + -ed.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔɹd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: board; baud, bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

bored

1. simple past and past participle of bore

bored (comparative more bored or boreder, superlative most bored or boredest)

1. Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

   Synonym: jaded

   He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.

   The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.

   • 2006 October 3, Serene Luo, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3:

     [Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.

2. Perforated by a hole or holes.

• be bored, Thesaurus:be bored
• boredly
• boredness
• smoothbored
• unbored

(Expressions):

• bored out of one's brains
• bored out of one's mind
• bored out of one's tree
• bored stiff
• bored shitless
• bored to tears

• bore, bore out
• boredom
• boring
• unbore

• ennui
• ennuyé

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed