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| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bummer*, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, dull, flat*, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten*, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drill hole |
| Synonyms: | burrow, mine, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pit, prick, punch, puncture, riddle, sink, tunnel, gouge out, ream |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause weariness, disinterest |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry |
| Antonyms: | amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | blah |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | bland, boring, dim, dreary, humdrum, monotonous, pedestrian, banausic, monotone, plodding, yawn producing |
| Antonyms: | exciting, spirited, full of life |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | drab |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, colorless |
| Synonyms: | arid, blah*, bleak, boring, brown, cheerless, desolate, dingy, dismal, dreary, dry, faded, flat, gloomy, gray, grungy, lackluster, muddy, murky, run-down, same, shabby, somber, unchanging, uninspired, vapid, zero*, characterless, dull as dishwater, lusterless, subfuse |
| Antonyms: | bright, colorful, inspired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dragging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tiresome, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | boring, dull, humdrum, lengthy, long, prolonged, tedious, wearisome, drawn-out, going slowly, overlong, protracted |
| Antonyms: | lively, energizing |
| Main Entry: | dreary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, damp, depressing, dingy, dismal, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched, comfortless, depressive, dispiriting |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | interminable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | infinite |
| Synonyms: | boring, boundless, ceaseless, constant, continuous, dull, endless, eternal, everlasting, immeasurable, incessant, limitless, long, long-winded, never-ending, permanent, perpetual, timeless, unceasing, uninterrupted, unlimited, wearisome, day-and-night, dragged out, interminate, long-drawn-out, looped, no end of, no end to, on a treadmill, protracted, spun out, strung out, unbound |
| Antonyms: | bounded, ending, finite, terminable |
| Main Entry: | irksome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | annoying |
| Synonyms: | boring, bothersome, burdensome, irritating, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, aggravating, troubling, vexing |
| Main Entry: | lackluster |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, lifeless |
| Synonyms: | blah*, blind, boring, colorless, dark, dead, dim, drab, dry, flat*, laid-back*, leaden, nothing*, obscure, pabulum*, prosaic, unimaginative, uninspired, vanilla*, vapid, zero*, draggy, ho-hum, lusterless, matte, muted, sombre |
| Antonyms: | bright, enthusiastic, lively, shining, shiny, spirited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | menial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, low-status |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, boring, common, degrading, dull, fawning, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, unskilled, vile, baseborn, demeaning, grovelling, sycophantic |
| Antonyms: | elevated, skilled, superior, talented |
| Main Entry: | monotonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | all the same, remaining the same |
| Synonyms: | blah*, boring, colorless, dreary, dull, flat, humdrum*, nothing, pedestrian, prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, soporific, tedious, tiresome, unchanged, unchanging, uniform, uninteresting, unvarying, wearisome, banausic, droning, dull as dishwater, flat as pancake, ho-hum, monotone, plodding, puts one to sleep, reiterated, samely, sing-song, toneless, treadmill, uninflected, unrelieved, unvaried, wearying |
| Antonyms: | changing, exciting, lively, variable, versatile, ever-changing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedestrian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | everyday, dull |
| Synonyms: | banal, blah*, boring, commonplace, dim, dreary, flat, humdrum*, inane, jejune, mediocre, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, wishy-washy*, banausic, monotone, platitudinous, plodding, truistic |
| Antonyms: | different, exceptional, extraordinary, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prosaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unimaginative |
| Synonyms: | actual, banal, blah*, boring, clean, colorless, common, commonplace, dead*, drab, dry, dull, everyday, factual, flat*, hackneyed, humdrum*, irksome, lackluster, lifeless, literal, lowly, monotonous, mundane, nothing, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, plebeian, practicable, practical, prose, routine, square, stale, tame, tedious, trite, uneventful, unexceptional, vanilla*, vapid, yawn*, zero*, diddly, garden-variety, ho-hum, lusterless, matter-of- fact, nowhere, platitudinous, prosy, uninspiring, workaday |
| Antonyms: | creative, imaginative, interesting, thinking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repetitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy, tedious |
| Synonyms: | boring, dull, long-winded, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitive, resonant, tautological, verbose, windy, alliterative, echoic, iterant, iterative, plangent, pleonastic, recapitulatory, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | concise, simple |
| Main Entry: | stodgy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, stuffy |
| Synonyms: | boring, dim, dreary, formal, heavy, labored, monotonous, pedantic, pedestrian, ponderous, staid, tedious, turgid, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, weighty, banausic, plodding |
| Antonyms: | adventurous, exciting, ready, willing |
| Main Entry: | tedious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dull, monotonous |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arid, banal, boring, drab, dragging, dreary, dry, dusty*, endless, humdrum, insipid, irksome, laborious, lifeless, mortal, pabulum*, poky*, prosaic, slow, snooze*, soporific, tiresome, tiring, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, bromidic, draggy, drudging, dull as dishwater, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, long-drawn-out, prosy, weariful |
| Antonyms: | entertaining, exciting, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tiresome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating, exasperating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, arduous, boring, burdensome, demanding, difficult, drag, dragging, dull, exacting, flat, hard, heavy, hefty, humdrum, irksome, laborious, monotonous, onerous, oppressive, strenuous, tedious, tired, tiring, too much*, tough, trying, uninteresting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, yawn*, a bit much, boresome, drudging, enervative, exhausting, fatiguing, ho-hum, jading, nowhere, uncool, unrelieved, wearying |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, fun, nice, stimulating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uneventful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | monotonous, dull |
| Synonyms: | boring, common, commonplace, humdrum, inconclusive, indecisive, ordinary, prosaic, quiet, routine, tedious, unexceptional, unexciting, uninteresting, unfateful, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unvaried |
| Antonyms: | eventful, exciting, extraordinary, memorable |
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