boring

boring has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Bore
• n.. The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
• n.. A hole made by boring.
• n.. The chips or fragments made by boring.
• n.. the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
• n.. the act of drilling
• a.. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"