boring

See also: Boring

English

From bore +‎ -ing.

boring (plural borings)

A pit or hole which has been bored.
- 1992, J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications, p. 191:
  It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.
Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.

boring

boring (comparative more boring, superlative most boring)

Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold one's interest
What a boring film that was!

inciting boredom

Arabic: مُمِلّ‎‎ (mumill), مُضْجِر‎‎ (muḍjir)
Armenian: ձանձրալի (hy) (janjrali)
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: абры́длівы (abrýdlivy)
Bulgarian: ску́чен (bg) (skúčen), доса́ден (bg) (dosáden)
Catalan: avorrit (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (formal) 乏味 (zh) (fáwèi), (informal) 無聊 (zh), 无聊 (zh) (wúliáo), (slang) 沒勁 (zh), 没劲 (zh) (méijìn)
Cornish: skwithus
Czech: nudný (cs)
Danish: kedelig (da)
Dutch: saai (nl)
Esperanto: enua, teda (eo), enuiga
Faroese: keðiligur, leiðiligur
Finnish: tylsä (fi), ikävystyttävä (fi)
French: ennuyeux (fr), barbant (fr), ennuyant (fr)
Georgian: მოსაწყენი (mosac̣q̇eni), მოსაბეზრებელი (mosabezrebeli)
German: langweilig (de)
Greek: βαρετός (el) (varetós), πληκτικός (el) (pliktikós), ανιαρός (el) (aniarós)
Greenlandic: qasunarpoq
Hebrew: משעמם‎‎ (mesha'amem)
Hungarian: unalmas (hu)
Icelandic: leiðinlegur (is)
Ido: enoyiganta (io), enoyigiva (io)
Irish: leadránach
Italian: noioso (it), palloso (it), tedioso (it), soporifero (it)
Japanese: つまらない (ja) (tsumaranai), 退屈な (ja) (たいくつな, taikutsu-na), うんざりさせた (ja) (unzari-saseta)

From the verb bore (“drill”).

boring c (singular definite boringen, plural indefinite boringer)

Declension of boring

From boren +‎ -ing.

boring f (plural boringen, diminutive borinkje n)

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