Thesaurus:boring
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Sense: causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- banal
- beat (slang)
- blah
- bland
- boring
- colourless
- drab
- dreich (Northern England, North Midlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
- dull
- dull as dishwater
- flat
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- insipid [⇒ thesaurus]
- lackluster
- lame
- lifeless
- longsome (UK dialect)
- monotonous
- mundane [⇒ thesaurus]
- no fun at parties
- plain
- plodding
- prosaic
- pedantic
- pedestrian
- static
- straightforward
- snoozeworthy
- soporific [⇒ thesaurus]
- tedious
- uncool
- wan
- wooden
- uninteresting
- stodgy
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Further reading[edit]
- “841. weariness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “boring” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.