Thesaurus:boring
English
Adjective
Sense: causing boredom; unable to engage or hold the interest
Synonyms
- banal
- beat (slang)
- blah
- bland
- boring
- cold [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- colourless
- drab
- dreich (Northern England, North Midlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
- drowsy
- dull
- dull as dishwater
- flat
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- insipid [⇒ thesaurus]
- lackluster
- lame
- languid
- lifeless
- longsome (UK dialect)
- monotonous
- mundane [⇒ thesaurus]
- no fun at parties
- plain
- plodding
- prosaic
- prosy
- pedantic
- pedestrian
- static
- straightforward
- snoozeworthy
- soporific [⇒ thesaurus]
- tedious
- uncool
- wan
- weaksauce (originally and chiefly US, informal)
- wooden
- uninteresting
- stodgy
- vapid
- vanilla
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Further reading
- “841. weariness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “boring” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.