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Meaning of boring

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  boring
      adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
             boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
             effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his
             competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who
             couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task
             the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious
             days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"-
             Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully
             wearisome" [syn: {boring}, {deadening}, {dull}, {ho-hum},
             {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {tiresome}, {wearisome}]
      n 1: the act of drilling [syn: {drilling}, {boring}]
      2: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of
         producing petroleum [syn: {boring}, {drilling}, {oil
         production}]


Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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