boring

意味: 退屈な

例文: Momo called the tuna museum “weirdly boring.”
　　  モモはツナ博物館を「変な意味で退屈」と言った。

定義: 穴をあける行為

コロケーション:

boringは40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the act of drilling
Noun: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
Verb: cause to be bored
Verb: make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
Adjective: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; – Edmund Burke; ; – Mark Twain

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Verb: don’t drill here, there’s a gas pipe
Verb: drill a hole into the wall
Verb: drill for oil
Verb: carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall
Adjective: a boring evening with uninteresting people
Adjective: the deadening effect of some routine tasks
Adjective: a dull play
Adjective: his competent but dull performance
Adjective: a ho-hum speaker who couldn’t capture their attention
Adjective: what an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Adjective: tedious days on the train
Adjective: the tiresome chirping of a cricket
Adjective: other people’s dreams are dreadfully wearisome

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bore, boring, deadening, drill, drilling, dull, ho-hum, irksome, oil production, slow, tedious, tire, tiresome, wearisome

Antonyms(反意語): interest

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): creating by removal, cut, production

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): bevel, bisect, bore, boring, breeding, brewing, capacity, carve, carving, chase, chatter, chip, chop, circumcise, cradle, crosscut, cube, cultivation, cut away, discerp, dissect, dock, drilling, excavation, fell, film editing, furrow, generation, gouge, hack, hob, incise, indent, jag, julienne, manicure, mass production, mining, mortise, mow, nick, nip, output, overproduction, pare, pink, plane, quarrying, rebate, rip, sabre, saw, scissor, sericulture, shear, slash, slice, slit, tap, tomahawk, transect, trench, trisect, undercut, underproduction, whittle

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): counter-drill, spud, trepan

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: bore, borer, boringness, drill, drilling, dullness, electric drill, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

comparative-more

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative