bored S3 /bɔːd $ bɔːrd/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ bore , ↑ boredom ; adjective : ↑ bored , ↑ boring ; verb : bore; adverb : boringly]
tired and impatient because you do not think something is interesting, or because you have nothing to do:
He was easily bored.
After a while, I got bored and left.
bored with
Are you bored with your present job?
bored stiff/to tears/to death/out of your mind (=extremely bored)
► Do not confuse bored , which describes a feeling, and boring , which describes someone or something that makes you feel bored : bored students | a boring job
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COLLOCATIONS
■ verbs
▪ get bored
I get bored if I’m at home on my own all day.
▪ grow bored written
She grew bored and started gazing out of the window.
▪ look/sound/feel bored
Some of the students were starting to look bored.
■ adverbs
▪ easily bored
Teenagers are easily bored in the holidays.
■ phrases
▪ be bored to tears/to death (=extremely bored)
Rob was bored to tears trailing around the shops.
▪ be bored stiff/silly/rigid (=extremely bored)
Patti was bored stiff with small-town Massachusetts life.
▪ be bored out of your mind (=extremely bored)
In some of the lessons, I was bored out of my mind.
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THESAURUS
▪ bored feeling that you are not interested in something or that you have nothing interesting to do:
Julia soon got bored with lying on the beach.
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I'm bored. Can we go home now?
▪ fed up [not before noun] informal feeling very bored and annoyed or unhappy - used especially when something has continued for too long, and you do not want it to continue any longer:
He got fed up with his old job and decided to start looking for a new one.
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I’m fed up with listening to you complain!
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You sound a bit fed up. Is everything alright?
▪ be tired of somebody/something ( also be sick of somebody/something ) to feel very annoyed and bored with something that has continued for too long. Be sick of somebody/something sounds stronger and more annoyed than be tired of somebody/something :
People are tired of hearing politicians make promises that they never keep.
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Do it yourself – I’m sick of cleaning up after you!
▪ have had enough informal to be so bored with something that has continued for a long time that you decide to leave, do something different, or change the situation:
She put up with him for ten years before she finally decided that she had had enough.
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I've had enough of all this moaning! Can we try and be more positive?