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{
"term": "boring",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "not interesting; making you feel tired and impatient",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's such a boring man!"
},
{
"text": "a boring job/book/evening"
},
{
"text": "The movie was dreadfully dull and incredibly boring."
},
{
"text": "The music eventually gets boring to listen to."
},
{
"text": "Green is much better than boring old white."
},
{
"text": "She found her job boring."
},
{
"text": "That film was dead boring."
},
{
"text": "The game was boring for the spectators."
},
{
"text": "Try not to make your diet boring."
},
{
"text": "His letters are really rather boring."
},
{
"text": "Your life must be incredibly boring."
},
{
"text": "The job sounds really boring."
}
],
"topics": ["Working life"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["for"],
"phrases": ["boring old"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/boring/boring__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbɔːrɪŋ/",
"audio": "bo/boring/boring__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}