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say it: bawrd
bored is an adjective meaning "tired of the world". It is pronounced /ˈbɔɹd/ — bawrd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
tired of the world
“bored with life”
“strolled through the museum with a bored air”
uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
“his blase indifference”
“a petulant blase air”
“the bored gaze of the successful film star”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bored come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.