Boring

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  • adjective. Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of piercing or perforating; specifically, in mining and similar operations, the act of making a hole in rock or earth by means of a borer or drill.
  • noun. The hole made by boring.
  • noun. plural The chips, fragments, or dust produced in boring. Also called boring-dust.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores.
  • noun. A hole made by boring.
  • noun. The chips or fragments made by boring.
  • noun. a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.
  • noun. a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A pit or hole which has been bored.
  • verb. Present participle of bore.
  • adjective. That which incites boredom in a person.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  • noun. the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
  • noun. the act of drilling
    • Word Usage
    "The idea is that you can be boring on facebook, or you can be just plain *boring*."
    cross-reference
    three-handed boring  
    Equivalent
    uninteresting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    creating by removal  production  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adoring  deploring  exploring  flooring  goring  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acupunctuation  acupuncture  arid  bore  boresome  
    verb-stem
    bore  
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