boresome

comparative more boresome · superlative most boresome

1. Marked by boredom; boring; uninteresting.

   Boresome time descended. The kind of time that droops over your knuckles and impedes your fingers' function.

   2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies

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   [...], 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