boredom 
bore·dom (bôr′dəm)
noun
the condition of being bored; ennui
boredom
n.
Converse of object
- relieve: In an attempt to relieve the boredom they decide to go to the pub.
- alleviate: Don't invite provocative conversation or respond to alleviate any boredom.
- banish: We've banished holiday boredom forever at Club Mania.
- crush: Good seating and a pleasing ambiance well away from the crushing boredom of the Tottenham Court Road furniture shops.
- induce: Leighton Andrews's curious article tried to smother the campaign with a layer of induced boredom.
- avoid: The way to avoid boredom with the tour is to bring something else into your life.
Preposition: at
- bay: This may also help keep food related boredom at bay, one of the common reasons people report abandoning changes to eating habits.
Converse of subject
- cause: Wood chewing - usually caused by boredom, lack of exercise or nervousness.
Adjective modifier
- sheer: In fact, the sheer boredom was why I made the list.
- utter: And so passed the five days there: bathroom, meals, telly, videos, reading, and utter boredom!
- extreme: You could tell how bored they were because they got out a jigsaw, which to my mind is the sign of extreme boredom.
- mind-numbing: Trades Union Congress - a week of mind-numbing boredom, stage-managed resolutions keeping sweet with the government, promoting partnership with the bosses.
Modifies a noun
- buster: Boredom Busters is fun for kids, right on your doorstep.
- threshold: With M, I persist beyond my usual boredom threshold.
- factor: Sounds to us you haven't reckoned on the boredom factor.
- scale: Is days long she is at on the boredom scale the prevalence of.
- set: If boredom sets in, she flies up to Alaska for low glacier hiking.
Noun used with modifier
- summer: Robert Taylor finds out The best in summer boredom beaters!
Preposition: in
- town: So says Wally Cross of Sybil, his nephew Elvet's wife, and her twenty years of deadly boredom in a small town.
Preposition: of
- life: Shane takes refuge from the boredom of married life in his local, The Four Feathers.
There is no event so commonplace but that God is present in it, alwayshiddenly, alwaysleaving you roomto recognize him or not to recognize him Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the heavenlyand hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
But the essential advantage for a poetis to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.
Dogs make you walk. Politics make you think.Only boredom makes you old.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie¤ tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
Life is first boredom, then fear.
The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning.It'snothingofthekind.Thegame isabout glory. It's about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.
La syme¤ trie, c'est l'ennui, et l'ennui est le fond me" me du deuil. Le de¤ sespoir ba" ille. Symmetry isboredomand boredom isthe foundation of grief. Despair yawns.
You define your own horror journey, according to your taste. My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Add discomfort, fatigue, strain in large amounts to get the purest-quality horror, but the kernel is boredom. I offer that as a universal test of travel; boredom, called byanyother name, iswhy you yearn for the first available transport out.But what bores whom? The threshold of boredom must be like the threshold of pain, different in all of us.
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