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bored
feeling that you are not interested in something or that you have nothing interesting to do:
• Julia soon got bored with lying on the beach. • I'm bored. Can we go home now?
fed up
[ not before noun ] informal feeling very bored and annoyed or unhappy - used especially when something has continued for too long, and you do not want it to continue any longer:
• He got fed up with his old job and decided to start looking for a new one. • I’m fed up with listening to you complain! • You sound a bit fed up. Is everything alright?
be tired of somebody/something
( also be sick of somebody/something ) to feel very annoyed and bored with something that has continued for too long. Be sick of somebody/something sounds stronger and more annoyed than be tired of somebody/something:
• People are tired of hearing politicians make promises that they never keep. • Do it yourself – I’m sick of cleaning up after you!
have had enough
informal to be so bored with something that has continued for a long time that you decide to leave, do something different, or change the situation:
• She put up with him for ten years before she finally decided that she had had enough. • I've had enough of all this moaning! Can we try and be more positive?
Longman-Thesaurus
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bored
verbs
get bored
• I get bored if I’m at home on my own all day.
grow bored
written
• She grew bored and started gazing out of the window.
look/sound/feel bored
• Some of the students were starting to look bored.
adverbs
easily bored
• Teenagers are easily bored in the holidays.
phrases
be bored to tears/to death
(= extremely bored )
• Rob was bored to tears trailing around the shops.
be bored stiff/silly/rigid
(= extremely bored )
• Patti was bored stiff with small-town Massachusetts life.
be bored out of your mind
(= extremely bored )
• In some of the lessons, I was bored out of my mind.
transnet.ir
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adj. VERBS be, feel, look, seem, sound | become, get, grow Some children get bored very quickly. | remain ADV. really, terribly, very | thoroughly | a bit, faintly, a little, pretty, rather, slightly PREP. at bored at the prospect of going shopping | by He seemed faintly bored by the whole process. | with He was bored with their conversation. PHRASES bored out of your (tiny) mind He walked along, bored out of his mind. | bored rigid/silly/stiff I remember being bored stiff during my entire time at school. | bored to death/distraction/tears She was alone all day and bored to death.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary