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bored
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninterested |
| Synonyms: | blasé, disinterested, dull, fatigued, inattentive, sick and tired, spiritless, tired, turned off |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world |
| Antonyms: | enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, interested |
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause weariness, disinterest |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Antonyms: | amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | blasé |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonchalant |
| Synonyms: | apathetic, been around twice, bored, cloyed, cool*, disenchanted, disentranced, done it all, fed up*, glutted, indifferent, jaded, knowing, laid-back*, lukewarm, mellow*, mundane, offhand, satiated, sick of, sophisticate, sophisticated, surfeited, unconcerned, unexcited, uninterested, unmoved, weary, world-weary, worldly |
| Antonyms: | enthusiastic, excited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fed up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusted with |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, blasé, blue*, bored, depressed, discontented, dismal, dissatisfied, down, gloomy, glum, jaded, sated, satiated, sick and tired, surfeited, tired, up to here, weary |
| Antonyms: | happy, overjoyed, pleased |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inattentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negligent, not paying attention |
| Synonyms: | absent, absentminded, apathetic, blind, bored, careless, distracted, distrait, distraught, diverted, dreamy, faraway, heedless, inadvertent, indifferent, inobservant, listless, lost*, musing, neglectful, oblivious, off-guard, out to lunch, preoccupied, rapt, regardless, remiss, removed, scatterbrained, thoughtless, unconscious, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobservant, unobserving, unperceiving, unthinking, unwatchful, vague |
| Antonyms: | attentive, heedful, looking, noticing, observant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, indifferent |
| Synonyms: | been around, blah*, blasé, bored, cool*, done it all, dulled, fagged, fatigued, fed up*, had it, mellow, sated, satiated, sick of, spent, surfeited, tired, tired-out, up to here, wearied, weary, worn, worn-down, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | fresh, unused |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | listless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritless, without energy |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, apathetic, blah*, bored, careless, dormant, dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, energyless, enervated, faint, heavy, heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, lagging, laid-back*, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lukewarm, lymphatic, mopish, neutral, out of it, passive, phlegmatic, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stupid, supine, thoughtless, torpid, uninterested, vacant |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, attentive, energetic, lively, untired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fed up, displeased |
| Synonyms: | blasé, bored, disgusted, jaded, revolted, satiated, tired, up to here with, weary |
| Antonyms: | content, happy, pleased, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | sophisticated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cosmopolitan, cultured |
| Synonyms: | adult, artificial, been around, blasé, bored, citified, cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned, experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laid-back*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined, schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise, studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | naive, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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