boring

[Bor·ing]

As an adjective boring describes something (or someone) that is tedious, dull, and lacking in interest. As a noun, boring refers to the act of drilling a hole, or the hole itself.

...

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

Noun
the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

Noun
the act of drilling

Adjective S.
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn''t capture their attention";

p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bore

n.
The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

n.
A hole made by boring.

n.
The chips or fragments made by boring.

Boring

Bor"ing , n. 1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells.

2. A hole made by boring. 3. pl. The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.

...

Usage Examples

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

I have a fear of being boring.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Misspelled Form

boring, vboring, gboring, hboring, nboring, boring, voring, goring, horing, noring, oring, bvoring, bgoring, bhoring, bnoring, b oring, bioring, b9oring, b0oring, bporing, bloring, biring, b9ring, b0ring, bpring, blring, boiring, bo9ring, bo0ring, bopring, bolring, boering, bo4ring, bo5ring, botring, bofring, boeing, bo4ing, bo5ing, boting, bofing, boreing, bor4ing, bor5ing, borting, borfing, boruing, bor8ing, bor9ing, boroing, borjing, borking, borung, bor8ng, bor9ng, borong, borjng, borkng, boriung, bori8ng, bori9ng, boriong, borijng, borikng, boribng, borihng, borijng, borimng, bori ng, boribg, borihg, borijg, borimg, bori g, borinbg, borinhg, borinjg, borinmg, borin g, borinfg, borintg, borinyg, borinhg, borinbg, borinvg, borinf, borint, boriny, borinh, borinb, borinv, boringf, boringt, boringy, boringh, boringb, boringv.

Other Usage Examples

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.