unbored
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not having been bored or drilled through.
adj
Not or no longer bored (suffering from boredom).
verb
simple past and past participle of unbore
Example Sentences
- "an unbored disc"
- "[…] each of us, her lovers, must have known that it was not in our power to make her unbored. We felt that somebody some day might, and that we should be left behind on that day. In spite of her seeming languor Betula had a great addiction to tennis."
- "Mrs. Ewing has a way of scaring a lot of people. I think it’s because she’s so rich and knits and, too, she sort of goes around looking bored all the time and you feel as if you’ve got to make her unbored."
- "Kathy pouts a lot and feels a sense of boredom and restlessness. In many ways she expects Don to make her "unbored," initiate new directions in their marriage, make her decisions for her, and make her feel important and special."
- "‘Your friendship’, he told him, ‘which grew steadily upon me, is one of the best things I take a way from the Office…certainly you made a great peace always around me, and kept me unbored and amused’."
- "She looked bored. I felt mildly sorry for her, so I decided to make her unbored."
Etymology
From un- + bored.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un