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# boring

«boring» in Mova's school dictionary: **not interesting, so you feel tired of it or want…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (boring, more boring, most boring); verb form (bore, bores, bored, boring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Boring means not interesting, so you feel tired of it or want something else to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#m1)

2) As a verb form, boring means making a hole through something with a tool, like boring through wood or rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, children say a long wait or a dull film is boring; feelings lessons teach that being bored is normal and can lead to new ideas and games. In stories, boring places become exciting when something happens. In writing lessons, teachers ask for interesting words instead of boring ones. Phrases: boring old, so boring, a boring day.

### examples

- This film is so boring; nothing happens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x1)
- Waiting in the queue was boring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x2)
- Rainy days don't have to be boring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x3)
- He thinks maths is boring, but she loves it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x4)
- Try to use exciting words, not boring ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x5)
- The long car journey was boring until we played I Spy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x6)
- The machine is boring a hole through the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x7)
- It's boring doing homework alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/#x8)

### note

Boring vs bored: a thing is boring; a person feels bored. «I am boring» means people find you dull; «I am bored» means you have nothing interesting to do. Saying someone's hobby is boring can hurt their feelings.

### In the corpora

- [Usually the facts are small and boring: a car, a van, an ambulance, a police car for twenty minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/12/)
- [Many puzzling things have a boring reason.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/3/)
- [Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/22/)
- [People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/6/)
- [Practice is often boring, but it is what makes you better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/350-chores-you-skipped/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.