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- Dictionaryboredom/ˈbɔːdəm/
noun
- 1. the state of feeling bored: "I'll die of boredom if I live that long"
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the state of being bored: They started quarrelling out of sheer boredom. Synonyms. ennui literary. tedium. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. the state of being unhappy and uninterested. boredom There's nothing to do at the cabin - I might die of boredom.
The meaning of BOREDOM is the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest. How to use boredom in a sentence.
noun [ U ] us / ˈbɔːr.dəm / uk / ˈbɔː.dəm / Add to word list. the state of being bored: They started quarreling out of sheer boredom. Synonyms. ennui literary. tedium. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. the state of being unhappy and uninterested. boredom There's nothing to do at the cabin - I might die of boredom.
The feeling of being bored or uninterested in what you're doing is boredom. Everyone experiences boredom sometimes. The feeling that nothing catches your interest, that everything's dull and flat, sums up the state of boredom.
Boredom: the desire for desires Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina. Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention and irreclaimable weakness of character James Bridie Mr. Bolfry.
the state of feeling bored; the fact of being very boring. I started to eat too much out of sheer boredom. Television helps to relieve the boredom of the long winter evenings. I noticed her short attention span and low boredom threshold (= she got bored very quickly).
