English-Thai Dictionary

boring

ADJ น่าเบื่อ  dull interesting na-buea

 

boring

N การ ขุด น้ำมัน  การเจาะ น้ำมัน  kan-khud-nam-man

 

boring

N การเจาะ  การ ขุด  kan-jor

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BORING

BORING Bor "ing, n.

 

1. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. One of the most important applications of boring is in the formation of artesian wells. Tomlinson.

 

2. A hole made by boring.

 

3. pl.

 

Defn: The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working ), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

boring

bor ing |ˈbôriNG bɔrɪŋ | ▶adjective not interesting; tedious: I've got a boring job in an office. DERIVATIVES bor ing ly adverb [ as submodifier ] : the list is excoriated as boringly predictable, bor ing ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

boring

bor ¦ing |ˈbɔːrɪŋ | ▶adjective not interesting; tedious: I've got a boring job in an office. DERIVATIVES boringly adverb [ as submodifier ] : my boringly respectable uncle, boringness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

boring

boring adjective a boring one-man play: tedious, dull, monotonous, repetitive, unrelieved, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful; characterless, featureless, colorless, lifeless, insipid, uninteresting, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating; unreadable, unwatchable; jejune, flat, bland, dry, stale, tired, banal, lackluster, stodgy, vapid, monochrome, dreary, humdrum, mundane; mind-numbing, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, trying, frustrating; informal deadly, ho-hum, dullsville, dull as dishwater, plain-vanilla. WORD SPECTRUM: interesting / boring See interesting Word Spectrums show shades of meaning between two polar opposites.WORD NOTE boring Just as sexy (q.v.) is the ultimate compliment, so boring is the most dreaded pejorative. Yet in most cases this distressing judgment comes as a surprise. Consider an all too common case. You work hard on a speech, and then realize —within five minutes —that you've misjudged the audience: The tuxedoed salesmen want laughs while they chow down on chicken marsala, not a reconsideration of Plato's theory of epistemology. Your address —were it presented to Oxford dons —might be showered with plaudits and huzzahs, but the overstuffed and half drunk listeners of Amalgmated Business Machines merely shuffle restlessly and glance at their Timex watches and hope that their tormentor —you —will just stop talking as soon as possible. Nonetheless, you doggedly soldier on, while secretly wishing you were dead. Therefore, when your turn comes to describe a performer, book, piece of music, weekly meeting, what have you, be kind and think twice: A man may excuse almost any criticism or insult, but he will never forget and never forgive being called boring. — MD Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

boring

boring adjective his letters are really rather boring: tedious, dull, monotonous; repetitious, repetitive; unrelieved, lacking variety, lacking variation, lacking excitement, lacking interest, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful, characterless, featureless, colourless, lifeless, soulless, passionless, spiritless, unspirited, insipid, uninteresting, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, unoriginal, derivative, jejune, nondescript, sterile, flat, bland, (plain ) vanilla, arid, dry, dry as dust, stale, wishy-washy, grey, anaemic, tired, banal, lame, plodding, ponderous, pedestrian, lacklustre, stodgy, dreary, mechanical, stiff, leaden, wooden; mind-numbing, soul-destroying, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, trying, frustrating; humdrum, prosaic, mundane, commonplace, workaday, quotidian, unremarkable, routine, run-of-the-mill, normal, usual, ordinary, conventional, suburban; N. Amer. garden variety; informal deadly, bog-standard, nothing to write home about, a dime a dozen, no great shakes, not up to much; Brit. informal samey, common or garden; N. Amer. informal dullsville, ornery. ANTONYMS interesting.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

boring

bor ing /bɔ́ːrɪŋ /→bore 1 形容詞 more ～; most ～退屈な , うんざりするような ▸ a boring job [teacher ]退屈な仕事 [先生 ]▸ This game is extremely [really, ｟米 ｠pretty ] boring .この試合は本当につまらない