BORING


Meaning of BORING in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

I suppose it's really just like factory work - just as boring .

She was almost as boring as George.

No-Eyes, bored and truculent, saw the very same things but saw them as boring and limited.

They are as boring as a civil servants' convention, but for armagnac, they are ideal.

In this secondary category falls financial control - seen by many as boring , bureaucratic and uncreative.

But it is highly unlikely that Bertrand found the trip as boring as his song implies.

more

After all, the only thing more boring than being dull is being dull and right.

It seemed to her that the world could not possibly contain a more boring room.

I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning.

All they would talk about would be the even more boring Sir Ralph Grunte and the plot to de-select him.

There was nothing more boring than flogging around, looking for something like a bike without lights.

That's fun - nothing is more boring than playing to a metronome.

As the traffic thickened towards the rush hour it got easier, but more boring , to stay fairly close behind him.

most

Unfairly, Redditch has been described as the most boring town in Britain, which produces the most boring postcards.

But paperwork is the most boring part of the work of the section police.

Without glamour, diversity, wit and experiment, disco can deteriorate into the most boring music of all time.

We may have the world's most boring aliens, but we do have corn circles, something no one else has got.

Another advantage is that self development is capable of converting even the most boring situation into a learning opportunity.

Everybody said he was the most boring golfer in the world but he was a golfing businessman.

Facing the Tories in what is a most boring and infantile election campaign is an emasculated and barely recognisable Labour party.

rather

For most people such details might be rather boring , but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.

I think that's rather boring .

After a couple of halfhearted bucks he settled and found the whole thing rather boring .

The past two decades of database development have been rather boring .

These are people who believe that everybody has something to say, and who find the idea of consensus rather boring .

so

The stuff was either rubbish, or twee, or so boring it made you want to puke.

It was read with awe by generations of students who wondered how he succeeded in making such an interesting topic so boring .

Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring ?

For the life of me I can't remember what courses I took - it was so boring .

Line-learning is so boring when you're dead.

Basil never talks when he's painting, and it's so boring .

There was nothing so boring , she thought, as some one who was continually bewailing her lot.

too

You know, old posters on the wall, signed photographs and so on. Too boring , really.

He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels.

Too perfect, and far too boring .

When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up.

very

The trouble with most biographies and press releases is that they are boring - very , very boring indeed.

Florianópolis is really very boring , you know.

In comparison, my attempt at a letter to the programme desk is very boring .

The straight kind was very boring and stayed in batteries.

I found it all very boring , especially when I got older, but kept my thoughts to myself.

Media and television attention to the half-dozen or so major clubs is now very boring .

And they're getting very , very boring .

You can be very boring , you know.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

deadly serious/dull/boring etc

And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.

He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.

He was deadly serious and I knew it.

His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.

It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.

Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.

The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.

The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a long boring lecture on economic planning

He's so boring - all he ever talks about is football.

He really is one of the most boring people I've ever met.

I don't want some boring job in an office!

It's so boring here. I wish we lived in L.A.

Most people who see a baseball game for the first time think it's pretty boring .

Pam's parents are nice, but they're very boring .

The movie was boring .

The professor was so boring , hardly anyone came to class.

This is such a boring town - there's nothing to do in the evenings.

What a boring way to spend an evening!

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Extremely boring job, we just sat there, and did nothing.

He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels.

However boring and horrible, she could cope with its drear familiarity.

I haven't bothered to explain certain things because, if I had, black people would have found it boring .

It was read with awe by generations of students who wondered how he succeeded in making such an interesting topic so boring .

Many people doing boring or repetitive jobs deliberately introduce a certain amount of stress to make the routine more exciting.

The street might be boring , the neighbourhood wasn't.

They can also create boring , frustrating mechanical jobs.

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