Antonyms for boredbored

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1. bored, world-wearyadjective

   tired of the world

   "bored with life"; "strolled through the museum with a bored air"

   Antonyms:
   interested, rested

   Synonyms:
   blase, world-weary

2. blase, boredadjective

   uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence

   "his blase indifference"; "a petulant blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star"

   Antonyms:
   rested, interested

   Synonyms:
   blase, world-weary, worldly

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. energized

   roused into activity.

   to energize the spirit with brave words.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 12, 2015  

How to use bored in a sentence?

1. Bella Thorne:

   It would be so sad [ if I quit because of ] the media and ‘ cancel culture ’ and all the annoying people sitting behind a screen wanting to bully people off the internet for no other reason than they’re bored with their own lives.

2. Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956):

   I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

3. James Corden:

   Only once, I went mad in 2007, i got massaged into madness. I went on a holiday in the Maldives and I was extremely bored, so I thought, ‘I’ll have another massage.’ I was having about 30 massages a day. At the end of the holiday, I felt a little strange… I got on the plane to go home, opened the newspaper reading the football results, and I burst into tears. And I couldn’t stop crying for three weeks. It was completely absurd… so I went to see shrinks then.

4. Michael Joseph:

   One girl was a valedictorian, she told me: 'I had no friends until I started traveling. No one understood me. I was always bored with everything everybody else wanted to do. I didn't want to go shopping. I wanted to go out into the woods and hike, and nobody understood that.' She thinks she'll go to college eventually and become a teacher.

5. Alison Pike:

   We're not all in the same boat in this pandemic, but the person who is in the same boat is your sibling. And they are in your boat generationally as well, it will be the story our children will tell their children when they complain about being bored.

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