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Bored vs Apathetic - What's the difference?

bored | apathetic |

As adjectives the difference between bored and apathetic

is that bored is suffering from boredom while apathetic is void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

As a verb bored

is (bore).

bored

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bore)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
    • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

    • Related terms

    * bore * boredom * boring

    Anagrams

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    apathetic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apathetical

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
  • Of, or pertaining to apatheism.

    • Synonyms

    * indifferent. impassive

    Related terms

    * apatheism * apatheist

    References

    * English terms with alpha privatives