Bored means tired of doing nothing interesting. Bored stiff, get bored, bored of waiting.
The construction splits: bored with and bored by are the traditional forms and bored of has spread so far that it is now standard in speech. Boredom is not just unpleasant — it is a signal that attention has nowhere to go, and it is one of the strongest drivers of creativity in children. Note bore, boring.
1adjectiveboredTired of doing nothing interesting.
“The kids got bored on the long car journey and kept asking if we were there yet.”
bored is a state of tedium.
Old English
borian
Middle English
boren
English
bore
English, today
bored
From bore + -ed. bore comes from Middle English boren, from Old English borian. From Middle English boren, from Old English borian (“to pierce”), from Proto-West Germanic borōn, from Proto-Germanic burōną. Compare Danish bore, Norwegian Bokmål bore, Dutch boren, German bohren, Old Norse bora. Cognate with Latin forō (“to bore, to pierce”), Latin feriō (“strike, cut”) and Albanian birë (“hole”). Sense of wearying may come from a figurative use such as "to bore the ears"; compare German drillen.
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