Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boreable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bore-able
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being bored or drilled into.

adj

Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.

Example Sentences

"One commercially available form of this type of bearing has a boreable 0.010 in.-thick lining of acetal copolymer, while another form has a thinner, 0.004 in.-thick, lining of the homopolymer."
"Some factory workers are intolerably bored by monotonous tasks; others prefer them. The boreable, on the other hand, develop on occasion the most furious initiative in their efforts to escape boredom."

Etymology

From bore + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bore

Inflected Forms

more boreable (comparative) most boreable (superlative) borable (alternative)

Questions

What does boreable mean?: Capable of being bored or drilled into.
Where does boreable come from?: From bore + -able.

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