Benign vs Boring - What's the difference?
benign | boring |
Kind; gentle; mild.
* (of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
* not harmful to the environment: [in combination] an ozone-benign refrigerant.
(medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
A pit or hole which has been d.
* 1992 , J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications , p. 191:
Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
As adjectives the difference between benign and boring
is that benign is kind; gentle; mild while boring is causing boredom.As a noun boring is
a pit or hole which has been bored.As a verb boring is
present participle of lang=en.benign
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* malign * malignantDerived terms
* benignly * benignant * benignity * benign neglect * benign tumorboring
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.