Definitions for Boring

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Boring bor·ing

Spelling: [bawr-ing, bohr-]

IPA: /ˈbɔr ɪŋ, ˈboʊr-/

Boring is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in Boring (bginor).

Definitions for Boring

noun

1. Machinery. the act or process of making or enlarging a hole. the hole so made.
2. Geology. a cylindrical sample of earth strata obtained by boring a vertical hole.
3. borings, the chips, fragments, or dust produced in boring.
4. a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
5. a cause of ennui or petty annoyance:
6. a hole made or enlarged by boring.
7. the inside diameter of a hole, tube, or hollow cylindrical object or device, such as a bushing or bearing, engine cylinder, or barrel of a gun.

verb

1. simple past tense of bear1 .

adjective

1. causing or marked by boredom:

verb (used with object)

1. to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.:
2. to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument.
3. to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument.
4. to form, make, or construct (a tunnel, mine, well, passage, etc.) by hollowing out, cutting through, or removing a core of material:
5. Machinery. to enlarge (a hole) to a precise diameter with a cutting tool within the hole, by rotating either the tool or the work.
6. to force (an opening), as through a crowd, by persistent forward thrusting (usually followed by through or into); to force or make (a passage).

verb (used without object)

1. to make a hole in a solid substance with a rotary cutting instrument.
2. Machinery. to enlarge a hole to a precise diameter.
3. (of a substance) to admit of being bored:

Origin of Boring

First recorded in 1835-45; bore¹ + -ing²

Examples for Boring

She was boring right into me with her eyes, and very indignant.

His theories were boring to listen to and impossible to execute.

So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.

Which to me, after the initial explosion of the Sex Pistols, always made Rotten kind of boring.

She was getting tired of the boring monotony of her present life.

Both are stale and boring, and whichever one you end up having in the end is still unpleasant.

I suppose poor relations are boring if you're well-off yourself.

What a fearful thing, something was boring away like a mole!

Fairchild considers herself a pragmatic liberal—a registered Democrat and “kind of a boring moderate.”

One tune would be like an hour or two hours, and he would not repeat himself, and it would not be boring….