What is another word for boring?
661 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ bˈɔːɹɪŋ], [ bˈɔːɹɪŋ], [ b_ˈɔː_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for boring:- all (adjective)
- arid (adjective)
- benumbed (adjective)
- blah (adjective)
- bland (adjective)
- boring (adjective)
- button-down (adjective)
- dead (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dragging (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- flat (adjective)
- frumpish (adjective)
- fusty (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- infinite (adjective)
- interminable (adjective)
- irksome (adjective)
- lackluster (adjective)
- menial (adjective)
- monotonous (adjective)
- pedestrian (adjective)
- prosaic (adjective)
- reiterative (adjective)
- repetitious (adjective)
- slavish (adjective)
- tame (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- tedious (adjective)
- uneventful (adjective)
- unexciting (adjective)
- uninteresting (adjective)
- vapid (adjective)
- act (noun)
- boring (noun)
- mining (noun)
- boring (verb)
- perforating (verb)
- other synonyms
- old fashioned
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Boring:
adj.
•all (adjective) •arid (adjective)- more unanimated,
- un-inspired,
- in-sipid,
- in sipid,
- most unanimated,
- un-animated,
- insipid,
- un inspired,
- un animated.
- most milk-and-water,
- most uninspiring,
- nerdiest,
- un-stimulating,
- most sapless,
- wishywashy,
- most nothing,
- more zero,
- nerdier,
- wimpier,
- more unstimulating,
- more uninspiring,
- most unstimulating,
- milk and water,
- un inspiring,
- more milk and water,
- more milk-and-water,
- most milk and water,
- most pabulum,
- un-interesting,
- weakest,
- most zero,
- more sapless,
- wimpiest,
- more nothing,
- un stimulating,
- more pabulum,
- wishy washy,
- wishy-washy,
- un-inspiring,
- un interesting.
- dis agreeable,
- un happiest,
- in-auspicious,
- de solate,
- dis-heartening,
- hopeless,
- un-happy,
- un-fortunate,
- de-pressed,
- in pits,
- in auspicious,
- most disheartening,
- inauspicious,
- over-cast,
- un happy,
- de-solate,
- more disheartening,
- de-pressing,
- dis-agreeable,
- un fortunate,
- funereal,
- overcast,
- de pressed,
- un happier,
- over cast,
- doleful,
- de pressing,
- dis heartening.
- most lusterless,
- more subfuse,
- un changing,
- sub-fuse,
- sub fuse,
- most characterless,
- un-changing,
- most subfuse,
- more characterless,
- more lusterless.
- shallow,
- Numskulled,
- toilsome,
- shallower,
- halfbaked,
- not bright,
- without incident,
- witless,
- unintellectual,
- indolent,
- lumpy,
- Impassible,
- yawner.
- un fashionable,
- un attractive,
- more styleless,
- un-attractive,
- more unstylish,
- un kempt,
- un kempter,
- un stylish,
- most styleless,
- styleless,
- un-stylish,
- unstylish,
- un kemptest,
- un-kemptest,
- most unstylish,
- un-kempter,
- un-kempt,
- un-fashionable.
- long winded,
- more day-and-night,
- un ceasing,
- inter-minable,
- in-terminate,
- more unbound,
- un-ceasing,
- unbound,
- no end to,
- more day and night,
- in terminate,
- un bound,
- most day and night,
- in-terminable,
- more interminate,
- most interminate,
- never ending,
- un-limited,
- in terminable,
- most day-and-night,
- un-bound,
- inter minable,
- long drawn out,
- un interrupted,
- most unbound.
- more troubling,
- more vexing,
- most troubling,
- more aggravating,
- troubling,
- most vexing,
- most aggravating.
- more ho-hum,
- un-imaginative,
- more hohum,
- sombrest,
- laidback,
- un imaginative,
- most ho-hum,
- sombrer,
- most ho hum,
- most hohum,
- more ho hum.
- de-grading,
- menial,
- de meaning,
- de grading,
- Obeisant,
- de-meaning,
- un-skilled,
- more grovelling,
- grovelling,
- most grovelling,
- fawning,
- most sycophantic,
- most demeaning,
- un skilled,
- more demeaning,
- more sycophantic.
- un-varying,
- un varying,
- puts one sleep,
- un inflected,
- uni form,
- more singsong,
- most sing-song,
- more uninflected,
- more reiterated,
- most treadmill,
- un-varied,
- more samely,
- re current,
- most toneless,
- un-inflected,
- most uninflected,
- un-relieved,
- re-current,
- more treadmill,
- more sing song,
- un varied,
- un-changed,
- more unvaried,
- more sing-song,
- most samely,
- sing song,
- most droning,
- un relieved,
- re-iterated,
- uni-form,
- most singsong,
- un changed,
- most reiterated,
- uninflected,
- most unvaried,
- more droning,
- puts sleep,
- most sing song,
- more toneless,
- re iterated.
- more workaday,
- gardenvariety,
- un exceptional,
- prosest,
- most workaday,
- more nowhere,
- un-exceptional,
- most nowhere,
- diddlier,
- diddliest.
- more white bread,
- most diluted,
- most white bread,
- most white-bread,
- Half-hearted,
- half hearted,
- boiled down,
- more white-bread.
n.
•act (noun) •boring (noun) •mining (noun)v.
•boring (verb) •perforating (verb)Other synonyms:
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- soporific,
- pallid,
- arid,
- tired,
- jerkwater,
- trivial,
- unexciting,
- plodding,
- shopworn,
- uninspired,
- banal,
- unexceptionable,
- stupefying,
- forgettable,
- mind-numbing,
- laborious,
- Weariful,
- dour,
- sterile,
- lifeless,
- drear,
- old-hat,
- dispiriting,
- unimaginative,
- soulless,
- labored,
- ritual,
- serviceable,
- drab,
- featureless,
- colorless,
- anodyne,
- hackneyed,
- formulaic,
- Stultifying,
- repetitious,
- godforsaken.
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- derivative,
- barren.
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- gray.
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- sad.
- awful,
- stiff,
- thick,
- leaden,
- unglamorous,
- Practising,
- heavy,
- drudging,
- impalement,
- homely,
- Terebration,
- colourless,
- tediously,
- unappealing,
- exasperating,
- dusty,
- dense,
- quiet,
- stereotypical,
- common,
- endless,
- juiceless,
- unscented,
- abhorrent,
- elephantine,
- trite,
- tiresomely,
- boringness,
- empty,
- Familiar,
- undistinguished,
- pestiferous,
- played out,
- fatigue,
- stifling,
- tapping,
- bourgeois,
- abominable,
- Palling,
- disgusting,
- Jading,
- forthright,
- muffled,
- gaze,
- penetration,
- grey,
- threadbare,
- straightforward,
- stilted,
- yucky,
- dingy,
- materialistic,
- rote,
- unchanging,
- exercise,
- Fagging,
- turgid,
- stuporous,
- troublesome,
- education,
- pleonastic,
- unending,
- pestering,
- newt,
- overdone,
- Trepanning,
- Broaching,
- mediocre,
- crass,
- creating by removal,
- torpid,
- Transfixion,
- unpleasant,
- obnoxious,
- pompous,
- taxing,
- detestable,
- monotonic,
- lowbrow,
- dully,
- redundant,
- hypnotic,
- orifice,
- repugnant,
- chafing,
- perfunctory,
- Unpoetic,
- dressage,
- long,
- sober,
- protracted,
- Bothering,
- drearily,
- repetitive,
- exercising,
- inflated,
- namby-pamby,
- vacuous,
- boringly,
- unenlightened,
- repellent,
- odious,
- realistic,
- obtuse,
- Gauging,
- hand-me-down,
- garden,
- training,
- forage,
- literal,
- lengthy,
- monochromatic,
- production,
- disagreeable,
- old,
- mouldy,
- distasteful,
- well-known,
- slowly,
- nuisance,
- laboured,
- excruciating,
- Overworked,
- unrefined,
- Welling,
- talkative,
- tautological,
- automatic,
- fatuous,
- reworked,
- lustreless,
- pricking,
- stereotyped,
- uncultivated,
- factual,
- philistine,
- direct,
- schooling,
- rigid,
- Depleting,
- plain,
- thankless,
- run-of-the-mill,
- somnolent,
- antiquated,
- fenestra,
- Perforator,
- anti-intellectual,
- watery,
- pale,
- boorish,
- prolix,
- ill at ease,
- unrelieved,
- stressful,
- loquacious,
- practicing,
- dumb,
- routine,
- acupunctuation,
- unsurprising,
- nauseating,
- stupid,
- down-to-earth,
- bore,
- unadorned,
- bored,
- grandiloquent,
- Ungifted,
- acupuncture,
- same,
- spiritless,
- goring,
- automaton-like,
- aggravating,
- offensive,
- draining,
- waterless,
- long-winded,
- horrid,
- unoriginal,
- mechanical,
- dehydrated,
- unlearned,
- unvarnished,
- Tunnelling,
- ponderous,
- inapt,
- unvarying,
- stony,
- Holing,
- discipline,
- miserable,
- softened,
- prolonged,
- foolish,
- sleep-inducing,
- wretched,
- unsavory,
- sickening,
- undiversified,
- ennui,
- vexing,
- vexatious,
- stereotypic,
- repulsive,
- perforation,
- unromantic,
- toothless,
- uneducated,
- dim,
- ordinary,
- earthbound,
- wooden,
- Sapping,
- Long-drawn,
- overused,
- irritating,
- reach-me-down,
- Nettling,
- unread,
- sleepy,
- lacklustre,
- windy,
- burdensome,
- Hollowing,
- practice,
- bothersome,
- dry-as-dust,
- staid,
- broach,
- desiccate,
- wordy,
- commercial,
- muted,
- monotonously,
- sluggish,
- long-drawn-out,
- bowling,
- stock,
- eyelet,
- inactive,
- thudding,
- unartistic,
- two-dimensional,
- cut,
- Plaguing,
- fixing,
- verbose,
- unlettered,
- literal-minded,
- untutored,
- changeless,
- vile,
- Borning,
- everyday,
- uncultured,
- jejune,
- disheartening,
- instruction,
- warmed-over,
- exhausting,
- Trephining,
- flavourless,
- garrulous,
- Excavating,
- unembellished,
- wearing,
- narrow-minded.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
dreary.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
disappointing, sad, inconvenient, monotonic, lame, well-drilling, disturbing, depressing, pierce, frustrating, unfortunate, awkward, rotten, regrettable, burdensome, distressing, time-consuming, terrible, pesky, frivolous, banal, unpleasant, suck, awful, depressed, miserable, unnerving, unremarkable, irritating.
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Proper noun, singular
drilling.
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Noun, singular or mass
drilling.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
bored, dull, tedious, tiresome, annoying, monotonous, cumbersome.
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Noun, singular or mass
bummer.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Boring:
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adj.
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uninteresting
fascinating, interesting, intelligent, current, unusual, different, smart, new, exciting, lively, bright, eventful.
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Other antonyms:
mesmerizing, energizing, invigorating, hair-raising, enlivening, moving, touching, rousing, beguiling, spellbinding, animating, suspenseful, spectacular, tantalizing, provocative, sensational.
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uninteresting
Hyponym for Boring:
n.
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act
creating by removal.
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act