Adjective: boresome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more boresome |
| Superlative | most boresome |
Sample Sentences
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[...], but if he didn't, he says, the job would be too boresome. Boresome, too boresome, is a good way to describe that ten- hour round-trip ride. I am one of the few making it alone. [2002, Sigrid Nunez, For Rouenna:]
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“[...] You got to hang on to the melody and never let it get boresome.” That desire never to be “boresome” underscored the ebullience and joy in most of his songs. [2006, Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser, America's Songs:]
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Boresome time descended. The kind of time that droops over your knuckles and impedes your fingers' function. [2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies:]
Adjectives inflected like boresome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From bore + -some.