boring

The process of making an existing hole wider with a precise cutting tool.

• Boring makes the hole wider.
• The workshop uses a lathe for boring.
• Accurate boring leaves the inside of the cylinder smooth.

Common phrases: precision boring, boring operation, boring head

Something that does not interest you and makes you wish you were doing something else.

• This film is boring.
• We left the boring lecture early.
• Why are these meetings always so boring?

Similar words: dull, uninteresting, tedious

Opposites: interesting, exciting

Common phrases: boring film, boring job, really boring, boring lecture

Feeling unhappy or restless because you have nothing interesting to do; a nonstandard use of “bored.”

• I feel boring with nothing to do.
• He said he was boring while waiting alone.
• She felt boring after hours without anything to do.

Similar words: bored

Opposites: interested

Common phrases: feel boring, be boring