Collocations for "boring"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "boring" in context.
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boring
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- a boring [person, teacher, movie, class, vacation]
- the most boring [thing, day, book, movie] ever
- it was boring to [see, read, watch]
- [very, really, incredibly, mind-numbingly, deadly] boring
- boring for [some, the readers, the fans, everyone]
- [this] is getting (so) boring
- so boring I [fell asleep, did a crossword]
- thought it was boring
- [found, considered] it boring
- covered in borings
- filled with borings
- the borings [went, flew] everywhere
- boring [tools, drill, machine]
'boring' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
afternoon
- bland
- class
- composition
- conversation
- disappointment
- do
- documentary
- drab
- draw
- dreary
- dull
- fart
- find
- fishing
- flat
- flight
- gotta
- graduation
- housework
- increasingly
- introduction
- lame
- lecture
- match
- mundane
- plot
- premise
- preview
- professor
- race
- read
- reading
- routine
- seriously
- skip
- sort
- speaker
- speech
- stale
- summer
- task
- text
- title
- workshop
- yarn