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Definitions for Boring

[1] causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
[2] Machinery . the act or process of making or enlarging a hole. the hole so made.
[3] Geology . a cylindrical sample of earth strata obtained by boring a vertical hole.
[4] borings, the chips, fragments, or dust produced in boring.
[5] to weary by dullness, tedious repetition, unwelcome attentions, etc.: The long speech bored me.
[6] a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
[7] a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do.
[8] to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument.
[9] to make (a hole) by drilling with such an instrument.
[10] to form, make, or construct (a tunnel, mine, well, passage, etc.) by hollowing out, cutting through, or removing a core of material: to bore a tunnel through the Alps; to bore an oil well 3000 feet deep.
[11] Machinery . to enlarge (a hole) to a precise diameter with a cutting tool within the hole, by rotating either the tool or the work.
[12] to force (an opening), as through a crowd, by persistent forward thrusting (usually followed by through or into ); to force or make (a passage).
[13] to make a hole in a solid substance with a rotary cutting instrument.
[14] Machinery . to enlarge a hole to a precise diameter.
[15] (of a substance) to admit of being bored: Certain types of steel do not bore well.
[16] a hole made or enlarged by boring.
[17] 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.
[18] simple past tense of bear1.
[19] the act or process of making or enlarging a hole the hole made in this way
[20] (often plural) a fragment, particle, chip, etc, produced during boring
[21] dull; repetitious; uninteresting
[22] to produce (a hole) in (a material) by use of a drill, auger, or other cutting tool
[23] to increase the diameter of (a hole), as by an internal turning operation on a lathe or similar machine
[24] (tr) to produce (a hole in the ground, tunnel, mine shaft, etc) by digging, drilling, cutting, etc
[25] (intr) informal (of a horse or athlete in a race) to push other competitors, esp in order to try to get them out of the way
[26] a hole or tunnel in the ground, esp one drilled in search of minerals, oil, etc
[27] a circular hole in a material produced by drilling, turning, or drawing the diameter of such a hole
[28] the hollow part of a tube or cylinder, esp of a gun barrel the diameter of such a hollow part; calibre
[29] Australian an artesian well
[30] (tr) to tire or make weary by being dull, repetitious, or uninteresting
[31] a dull, repetitious, or uninteresting person, activity, or state
[32] a high steep-fronted wave moving up a narrow estuary, caused by the tide
[33] the past tense of bear 1

Words related to Boring

tedious, mundane, monotonous, stodgy, humdrum, tiring, dull, lifeless, stupid, trite, stuffy, tiresome, tame, uninteresting, stale, flat, commonplace, bomb, bummer, plebeian

Words nearby Boring

boric, boric acid, boric oxide, boricua, boride, boring, boring bar, boring machine, boring mill, boris, boris godunov

Origin of Boring

e2before 900; Middle English; Old English borian; cognate with Old High German borōn, Old Norse bora, Latin forāre

Words that may be confused with Boring

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, boreboar, Boer, boor, bore, board, bored, board, bored, committee, council, panel, trust

Other words from Boring

bor·ing·ly , adverb
bor·ing·ness , noun
bore·a·ble , bor·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Boring

eC17: from Old Norse bāra wave, billow

Synonyms for Boring

dull, humdrum, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, trite, uninteresting, bomb, bummer, cloying, commonplace, dead, drab, drag, drudging, flat, nothing, nowhere, plebeian, routine, stereotyped, zero, arid, bromidic, characterless, colorless, ho hum, insipid, interminable, irksome, moth-eaten, platitudinous, prosaic, repetitious, spiritless, threadbare, unexciting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn