boring

boring is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Bore. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Bore
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A hole made by boring.
4. noun. The chips or fragments made by boring.
5. noun. the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

   Synonyms: drilling

6. noun. the act of drilling

   Synonyms: drilling

7. adjective. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness- Edmund Burke- Mark Twain

   "a boring evening with uninteresting people"

   "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"

   Synonyms: deadening, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome

Synonyms

drilling, deadening, dull, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in boring:

orbing, robing

Common word forms

bor, bore, borings, boringly, boringness

Words from these letters

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