Boring

What do we mean by boring?

Uninteresting and tiresome; dull. adjective

The act of piercing or perforating; specifically, in mining and similar operations, the act of making a hole in rock or earth by means of a borer or drill. noun

The hole made by boring. noun

Plural The chips, fragments, or dust produced in boring. Also called boring-dust. noun

The act or process of one who, or that which, bores. noun

A hole made by boring. noun

The chips or fragments made by boring. noun

A revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. noun

A cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. noun

A pit or hole which has been bored. noun

Present participle of bore. verb

That which incites boredom in a person. adjective

So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness adjective

The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum noun

The act of drilling noun

To inspire boredom in somebody.

To make a hole through something.

To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.

To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.

To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.

To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

(of a horse) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air.

To fool; to trick.

Words that are spelled similarly to boring:
boring, bring, boxing, baring, boeing, bowring, boing, bowing, poring, goring, boning, bering, loring, coring, boding, booing, soring, oring, borking, borging, boking, moring, boying, doring, boling, borin, borning, bosing.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word boring:
repetitive, bland, dull, predictable, bored, tunnel, machines, drilling, machine, lava, exciting, bore, beetle, drill, holes, gameplay, reviewer, interesting, hole, fun, lacking, tool, psychology, diameter, graphics, larvae, rated, criticized, cutting, praised, really, portland, thing, oregon, tools, bit.

Words that rhyme with boring:
soaring, orang, roaring, flooring, outpouring, warring, scoring, adoring, pouring, snoring, shoring, poring, ignoring, exploring, imploring, goring, loring, storing, underscoring, deploring, restoring, stevedoring, morang, moring, outscoring, goehring, doring, moehring, mohring, core ring, doehring, door hung, door ring, draw ring, indoor ring, kohring, lorang, outdoor ring, pore ring, pour ung, war hung, wore hung, your ring.

Adjectives that are often used to describe boring:
more, pretty, little, less, most, very, deep, plain, deadly, horizontal, downright, well, dull, excruciatingly, vertical, somewhat, dead, damn, bloody, least, pre, interesting, rough, sound, actual, auger, inherently, numbingly, accurate, sounds, exploratory, slow, deepest, routine, intrinsically, wood, rotary, wash, stupid, damned, successful, monotonous, dry, mechanical, deeper, repetitive, deathly, self, longer, test, hole, shallow, quite, exciting, tedious, awful, preliminary, hand, ugly, rock, straight, mighty.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective boring:
insects, life, beetles, machine, day, machines, place, job, holes, operations, person, stuff, thing, jobs, bar, head, subject, tool, mill, way, work, tools, evening, larvae, tasks, party, beetle, task, pain, mills, pressuremeter, meetings, things, story, bars, bit, cannon, organisms, book, details, speech, topic, existence, insect, species, afternoon, questions, night, bivalves, wells, hours, kind, animals, activities, grubs, molluscs, duty, ceremony, lecture, equipment, town, rods, rod, instrument, affair, lives, sponge, habit, dust, meeting, moment, pains, trip, guy, mollusks, routine, tests, name, talk, piece, books, apparatus, larva, machinery, fart, operation, worms, dinner, conversation.

Consonant match to boring:
bearing, barring, baring, bowring, bering, barong, behring, birring, b ring, bar hung, bare ring, bear ing, berrong, bo wring.

Words that sound like boring:
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