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ennuyé

ennuyé adjective: affected with ennui; bored.

Adjective

ennuyé (comparative more ennuyé, superlative most ennuyé)

  1. Affected with ennui; bored.
    • Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
    • You must open your doors to your friend at all hours; if when inside it suit him to sing, sing he will; and until you learn solitude in a crowd, or the art of concentration, you are apt to become ennuyé and irritable.1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 49

Forms of ennuyé

comparativemore ennuyé
superlativemost ennuyé

Origin of ennuyé

Borrowed from French ennuyé.

Questions about ennuyé

What does ennuyé mean?
Ennuyé means affected with ennui; bored.
What part of speech is ennuyé?
Ennuyé is an adjective.

Words near ennuyé in the dictionary

  1. ennuied
  2. ennuis
  3. ennuye
  4. ennuyed
  5. ennuying
  6. ennuyé
  7. ennuyée
  8. ennuyées
  9. enny
  10. Eno
  11. eno-

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