Boring vs Listless - What's the difference?
boring | listless | Related terms |
A pit or hole which has been d.
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Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Boring is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between boring and listless
is that boring is causing boredom while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.As a noun boring
is a pit or hole which has been d.As a verb boring
is .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
* * ----listless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time :
- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”
