not interesting; making you feel tired and impatient a boring man a boring job/book/evening
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
adverb boringly normal Thesaurusboring
- dull
- tedious
- boring not interesting; making you feel tired and impatient:He's such a boring man! She found her job very boring.
- dull not interesting or exciting:Life in a small town can be extremely dull.
- tedious lasting or taking too long and not interesting, so that you feel bored and impatient:The journey soon became tedious.
- to be boring/dull/tedious for somebody
- boring/dull/tedious subjects/books
- boring/dull/tedious jobs/work/games
- a boring/dull place/man/woman/person
Check pronunciation: boring