Word family
(noun)
boreboredom
(adjective)
boredboring
(verb)
bore
(adverb)
boringly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishboredombore‧dom /ˈbɔːdəm $ ˈbɔːr-/ ●○○ noun [uncountable]BORINGthe feeling you have when you are bored, or the quality of being boring
a game to relieve the boredom of a long journey
the sheer boredom of being in jailboredom with
his boredom with life in a small townExamples from the Corpusboredom• Boredom is one of the mainreasonskids get into trouble.• It is a tribute to our impatience and boredom that we are already asking this question three monthspremature.• I get more tired from boredom than from work.• I sit around all day and eatjunk food out of boredom.• Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporaryunemployment.• Can you imagine the sheerboredom of doing the same job day in, day out for fifty years?• Amazing as it might sound, boredom may play a factor as well.• I get bored, he said, and I run from this terribleboredom that is the opposite of life.• I couldn't help contrast the boredom with United's exhilarating 4-3 encounter with Liverpool some years back, also in Belfast.• She could no longer stand the boredom of having nothing to do.• There was nothing like a small fire to take the boredom right out of things.• But it drives you mad with boredom.sheer boredom• Often, the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the henspecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis.• Mistyrain or Sunday lunch, or sheer boredom had dispersed the spectators and LadyStreet was deserted.
