Antonyms for bore
bɔr, boʊrbore

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bore

   Antonyms:
   amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, interest, occupy, please, recreate

   Synonyms:
   annoy, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bore

   Antonyms:
   please, gratify, delight

   Synonyms:
   perforate, pierce, weary, penetrate

Matched Categories

1. • Cut
   • Tidal Flow
   • Unpleasant Person

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. bore, dullardnoun

   a person who evokes boredom

   Antonyms:
   interest

   Synonyms:
   tidal bore, stupid person, caliber, gauge, pudding head, dolt, eagre, eager, calibre, stupid, stupe, dullard, pillock, pudden-head, poor fish, drill hole, bore-hole, aegir

2. tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eagernoun

   a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

   Antonyms:
   interest

   Synonyms:
   dullard, aegir, eager, bore-hole, eagre, drill hole, calibre, caliber, tidal bore, gauge

3. bore, gauge, caliber, calibrenoun

   diameter of a tube or gun barrel

   Antonyms:
   interest

   Synonyms:
   dullard, gage, aegir, eager, bore-hole, standard of measurement, eagre, drill hole, quality, calibre, caliber, tidal bore, gauge

4. bore, bore-hole, drill holeverb

   a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

   Antonyms:
   interest

   Synonyms:
   dullard, aegir, eager, bore-hole, eagre, drill hole, calibre, caliber, tidal bore, gauge

5. bore, tireverb

   cause to be bored

   Antonyms:
   interest

   Synonyms:
   fag out, weary, play out, wear upon, pall, drill, fatigue, run down, exhaust, tire, wear out, sap, wear, outwear, tire out, wear down, jade

6. bore, drillverb

   make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

   "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"

   Antonyms:
   interest

   Synonyms:
   tire, practise, drill, practice, exercise

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1. borenoun

   Synonyms:
   perforation, caliber, tiresome person, proser

2. boreverb

   Synonyms:
   perforate, pierce, drill, weary, tire, annoy, fatigue

How to use bore in a sentence?

1. Henry Adams:

   As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Every hero becomes a bore at last.

3. La Bruy?re:

   It is the character of a simpleton to be a bore. A man of sense sees at once whether he is welcome or tiresome; he knows to withdraw the moment that precedes that in which he would be in the least in the way.

4. Alexis karpouzos:

   We are a short poem in a endless emptiness page, words are lighthouses that ignites and struggle to deliver light to the dark edges of the infinite, and mystic sounds struggle to give voice to the unlived beings, to bore a young soul to the gate of birth.

5. Samuel Butler:

   The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

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