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Bothered vs Bored - What's the difference?

bothered | bored |

As adjectives the difference between bothered and bored

is that bothered is caused to show discomposure while bored is suffering from boredom.

As verbs the difference between bothered and bored

is that bothered is past tense of bother while bored is past tense of bore.

bothered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Caused to show discomposure
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (bother)
  • 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)
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