bored

bore +‎ -ed

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔːɹd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger)IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophone: board; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

bored

1. simple past tense and past participle of bore

A bored woman selling souvenirs in Moscow.

bored (comparative more bored, superlative most bored)

1. suffering from boredom; to have nothing to do
2. uninterested, without attention

   The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem

3. perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

• bore
• boredom
• boring

• Brode, brode, orbed, robed