Word.ws English Dictionary

boresome

boresome adjective: marked by boredom; boring; uninteresting.

Adjective

boresome (comparative more boresome, superlative most boresome)

  1. Marked by boredom; boring; uninteresting
    • [...], but if he didn't, he says, the job would be too boresome. Boresome, too boresome, is a good way to describe that ten- hour round-trip ride. I am one of the few making it alone.2002, Sigrid Nunez, For Rouenna
    • “[...] You got to hang on to the melody and never let it get boresome.” That desire never to be “boresome” underscored the ebullience and joy in most of his songs.2006, Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser, America's Songs

Forms of boresome

comparativemore boresome
superlativemost boresome

Origin of boresome

From bore + -some.

Words formed from boresome

Questions about boresome

What does boresome mean?
Boresome means marked by boredom; boring; uninteresting.
What part of speech is boresome?
Boresome is an adjective.

Words near boresome in the dictionary

  1. Boreses
  2. boresight
  3. boresighted
  4. boresighting
  5. boresights
  6. boresome
  7. boresomely
  8. boresomeness
  9. borest
  10. boreth
  11. borewell

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boresome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “boresome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/boresome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.