BOREDOM

[`bɔːdəm]

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boredom: translation

▪ pure (esp. AmE), sheer, utter

▪ terminal

▪ prevent

▪ alleviate, avoid, combat, relieve

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An MP3 player can relieve the boredom of running.

▪ die from, die of, go mad with (BrE)

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I'd die of boredom if I lived in the country.

▪ drive sb mad with (BrE)

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Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.

▪ a low boredom threshold (esp.BrE)

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Sorting mail is not a job for people with a low boredom threshold.

boredom: translation

acedia, aloofness, angst, anguish, anxiety, apathy, boredness, carelessness, cheerlessness, detachment, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, disgust, disinterest, disinterestedness, dislike, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet, dissatisfaction, distaste, doldrums, dread, dreariness, drowsiness, dullness, emptiness, enervation, ennui, existential woe, fatigue, fed-upness, flatness, grimness, heaviness, hebetude, heedlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, inanimation, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, inquietude, insouciance, intellectual inertia, jadedness, joylessness, lack of interest, lack of pleasure, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, life-weariness, lifelessness, listlessness, malaise, melancholy, monotony, nausea, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, oscitancy, painfulness, passivity, phlegm, regardlessness, satedness, satiation, satiety, savorlessness, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, somnolence, spleen, staleness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupor, supineness, taedium vitae, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tiredness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, uncomfortableness, unconcern, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, wearifulness, weariness, withdrawal, world-weariness, yawn

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boredom [ˊbɔ:dəm] n

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