What does bored mean?
Word: Bored
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Bored means fed up and restless because nothing around you holds your attention.
Synonyms: fed up, uninterested
Antonyms: excited
Sounds like: board (a flat piece of wood, or to get on a bus or train)
How do you spell bored?
Syllables: bored
Tricky part: Bored sounds just like board, the flat piece of wood. Only board has an a; the feeling bored has none.
Watch out for: boared, boured
Memory tip: A board is made of oak, and oak brings the a. Bored, the feeling, has no wood in it, so no a.
Idioms and Phrases
- bored stiff: very, very bored Example: "We were bored stiff waiting for the rain to stop."
Bored in a sentence
Example 1: I was bored on the long car ride to Jaipur.
Example 2: Kabir never gets bored with his toy trains.
Example 3: The cat looked bored, so I rolled a ball to it.
Fun Fact
The noun boredom is quite young for an English word: one of its earliest known uses is in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House, from the 1850s.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) boerd
b) bored
c) borid
d) boored
Show answer
b) bored. Bored has a single o and keeps the e before the d.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
bored
a) hungry
b) lonely
c) interested
d) sleepy
Show answer
c) interested. A bored child wants to stop, but an interested child wants to know more.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
borred
a) r
b) d
c) e
d) o
Show answer
a) r. Bored needs only one r.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct letter to form a word:
bore_
a) k
b) p
c) d
d) t
Show answer
c) d. The feeling word ends with the d of ed.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When is a child most likely to feel bored?
a) during a long wait with nothing to do
b) while playing with best friends
c) while solving a new puzzle
d) while watching a funny cartoon
Show answer
a) during a long wait with nothing to do
2. Which sentence uses bored correctly?
a) We bored the bus at nine.
b) I wrote my name on the bored.
c) The bored was made of wood.
d) Tia was bored by the same old song.
Show answer
d) Tia was bored by the same old song.
