adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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I suppose it's really just like factory work - just as boring .
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She was almost as boring as George.
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No-Eyes, bored and truculent, saw the very same things but saw them as boring and limited.
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They are as boring as a civil servants' convention, but for armagnac, they are ideal.
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In this secondary category falls financial control - seen by many as boring , bureaucratic and uncreative.
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But it is highly unlikely that Bertrand found the trip as boring as his song implies.
more
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After all, the only thing more boring than being dull is being dull and right.
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It seemed to her that the world could not possibly contain a more boring room.
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I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning.
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All they would talk about would be the even more boring Sir Ralph Grunte and the plot to de-select him.
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There was nothing more boring than flogging around, looking for something like a bike without lights.
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That's fun - nothing is more boring than playing to a metronome.
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As the traffic thickened towards the rush hour it got easier, but more boring , to stay fairly close behind him.
most
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Unfairly, Redditch has been described as the most boring town in Britain, which produces the most boring postcards.
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But paperwork is the most boring part of the work of the section police.
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Without glamour, diversity, wit and experiment, disco can deteriorate into the most boring music of all time.
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We may have the world's most boring aliens, but we do have corn circles, something no one else has got.
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Another advantage is that self development is capable of converting even the most boring situation into a learning opportunity.
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Everybody said he was the most boring golfer in the world but he was a golfing businessman.
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Facing the Tories in what is a most boring and infantile election campaign is an emasculated and barely recognisable Labour party.
rather
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For most people such details might be rather boring , but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.
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I think that's rather boring .
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After a couple of halfhearted bucks he settled and found the whole thing rather boring .
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The past two decades of database development have been rather boring .
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These are people who believe that everybody has something to say, and who find the idea of consensus rather boring .
so
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The stuff was either rubbish, or twee, or so boring it made you want to puke.
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It was read with awe by generations of students who wondered how he succeeded in making such an interesting topic so boring .
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Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring ?
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For the life of me I can't remember what courses I took - it was so boring .
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Line-learning is so boring when you're dead.
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Basil never talks when he's painting, and it's so boring .
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There was nothing so boring , she thought, as some one who was continually bewailing her lot.
too
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You know, old posters on the wall, signed photographs and so on. Too boring , really.
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He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels.
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Too perfect, and far too boring .
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When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up.
very
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The trouble with most biographies and press releases is that they are boring - very , very boring indeed.
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Florianópolis is really very boring , you know.
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In comparison, my attempt at a letter to the programme desk is very boring .
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The straight kind was very boring and stayed in batteries.
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I found it all very boring , especially when I got older, but kept my thoughts to myself.
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Media and television attention to the half-dozen or so major clubs is now very boring .
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And they're getting very , very boring .
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You can be very boring , you know.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deadly serious/dull/boring etc
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And at a time which - surely it was obvious - was deadly serious.
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He's a deadly dull little man as far as I can see.
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He was deadly serious and I knew it.
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His companion chuckled at the jest, but Gravelet, whose stage name was Blondin, was deadly serious.
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It was now clear, however, that the position was becoming deadly serious.
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Suppose, for example, you regularly attend a weekly meeting which tends to be deadly dull.
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The noise level was high in both languages; all faces were deadly serious.
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The primary indicator is Attempts to be deadly serious invariably result in unintended comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a long boring lecture on economic planning
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He's so boring - all he ever talks about is football.
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He really is one of the most boring people I've ever met.
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I don't want some boring job in an office!
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It's so boring here. I wish we lived in L.A.
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Most people who see a baseball game for the first time think it's pretty boring .
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Pam's parents are nice, but they're very boring .
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The movie was boring .
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The professor was so boring , hardly anyone came to class.
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This is such a boring town - there's nothing to do in the evenings.
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What a boring way to spend an evening!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Extremely boring job, we just sat there, and did nothing.
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He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels.
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However boring and horrible, she could cope with its drear familiarity.
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I haven't bothered to explain certain things because, if I had, black people would have found it boring .
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It was read with awe by generations of students who wondered how he succeeded in making such an interesting topic so boring .
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Many people doing boring or repetitive jobs deliberately introduce a certain amount of stress to make the routine more exciting.
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The street might be boring , the neighbourhood wasn't.
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They can also create boring , frustrating mechanical jobs.