Boring vs Bored - What's the difference?
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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.
(bore)
suffering from boredom
uninterested, without attention
perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
Bored is a related term of boring.
As verbs the difference between boring and bored
is that boring is present participle of lang=en while bored is past tense of bore.As adjectives the difference between boring and bored
is that boring is causing boredom while bored is suffering from boredom.As a noun boring
is a pit or hole which has been bored.boring
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* dull, mind-numbing (colloquial), tedious * See alsoDerived terms
* *Anagrams
* * ----bored
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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