boredom — ozdic

Collocations

7

1

(noun.)

ADJ

sheer, utter | terminal

VERB + BOREDOM

prevent

alleviate, combat, relieve

Listening to music helped combat the boredom during the long flight.

die from/of, go mad with

She went mad with boredom during the long train journey and started reading magazines.

drive sb mad with

The long rainy days drove the children mad with boredom until they discovered board games.

PHRASES

a high/low boredom threshold

My teenage son has such a low boredom threshold that he needs constant entertainment.

Definitions

noun

1

The state of being bored.

The House had just broke up, and the political members had just entered, and in clusters, some standing, and some yawning, some stretching their arms, and some stretching their legs, presented symptoms of an escape from boredom.

[O]nly last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.

2

An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.

If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.

Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.

3

The state of being a bore.

Neither will I follow another precedental mode of boredom, and indulge in a laudatory apostrophe to the destinies which presided over my fashioning.

The complete art of boredom.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the feeling of being bored by something tedious

ennui
tedium

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

The House had just broke up, and the political members had just entered, and in clusters, some standing, and some yawning, some stretching their arms, and some stretching their legs, presented symptom

Wiktionary

02

[O]nly last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.

Wiktionary

03

If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored

Wiktionary

04

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Tatoeba · #2279

05

It was boredom that Aldous Huxley considered one of the most dangerous human conditions.

Tatoeba · #64804

06

I am no match for boredom.

Tatoeba · #259307

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, boredom is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.