Synonyms for boring

Most common

dull · uninteresting · tedious · tiresome

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

Noun

Antonyms

interesting, exciting, entertaining

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Definitions

1. adj. 1

   Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.

   What a boring film that was! I almost fell asleep.

2. n. 1

   One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.

Related words

Word family

boringly boringness bore bored boredom

Phrases

boring bit boring as beans tunnel boring machine

Is a kind of

cutting familiar moving normal

Forms

Plural

borings → chips, swarfs, drillings, piercings…

From weakest to strongest

1. entertaining
2. fascinating
3. exciting
4. interesting
5. boring
6. dull
7. tedious
8. bland
9. tiresome
10. monotonous
11. uninteresting

From the opposite of boring, on the left, to its strongest synonyms, on the right.

Example sentences

• tedious The journey, as I recall it, was long and tedious.
• tiresome I never, ever want to do that tiresome work again.
• monotonous Everyday life can get a bit monotonous at times.
• uninteresting The majority of the songs became uninteresting.
• bored We are bored with the joke of professorial custom.
• monochromatic Yanni decided to adopt a monochromatic palette.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

long¹, slow¹, flat¹, chip¹, dull¹, arid², drab¹

5 letters

bored¹, bland¹, vapid², swarf

6 letters

stodgy²

7 letters

tedious³, mundane², insipid³, prosaic³, humdrum², irksome²

8 letters

drilling², piercing², lifeless², tiresome³

9 letters

soporific, wearisome³

10 letters

monotonous⁴

11 letters

perforation⁴

13 letters

uninteresting⁴, monochromatic⁵, transforation

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (arid² = 2 syllables).

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