Usually means: Lacking interest or excitement; dull.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word boring:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. boring: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boring: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boring: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boring, boring: Wordnik
  7. boring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Boring, boring: Wiktionary
  9. boring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boring: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Boring, boring: Dictionary.com
  13. boring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Boring (The Young Ones), Boring (disambiguation), Boring (earth), Boring (manufacturing), Boring (mechanical), Boring (surname), Boring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Boring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. boring: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. boring: Rhymezone
  18. boring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. boring: Free Dictionary
  20. boring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. boring: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. boring: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. boring: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boring: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. boring: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boring: Idioms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bore as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
noun:  A pit or hole which has been bored.
noun:  (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
adjective:  Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient.
adjective:  (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
adjective:  Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
adjective:  Capable of penetrating; piercing.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

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