unbored

English

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ bored.

Pronunciation

Homophone: unboard

Adjective

unbored (not comparable)

1. Not having been bored or drilled through.

   an unbored disc

2. Not bored (suffering from boredom).
   • 1961, Eric Bligh, Faintly Smiling Mouth, London: Secker & Warburg, page 63:

     […] 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.

   • 1986, Elise Sanguinetti, The Last of the Whitfields, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     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.

   • 1986, Gerald Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92:

     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.

   • 2008, Sean Greenwood, Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the Shaping of the Modern World, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 14:

     ‘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’.

   • 2013, Melodie Campbell, The Goddaughter’s Revenge, Raven Books, →ISBN, page 99:

     She looked bored. I felt mildly sorry for her, so I decided to make her unbored.

   • 2014, Wayne Myers, Ascension Climber In a Metaphysical Primer: Mental-Physical Ways for Spirited Days, Lulu, →ISBN:

     The pen is mightier than the sword only with readers being unbored.

   • 2021, Yugel Losorata, “Liberating Ursula”, in Rhythm & Bruise, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:

     She was a bright kid, and she couldn't be fooled by her parents trying their best to keep her unbored.

   • 2022, Sandra Hill, The Caged Viking, →ISBN:

     “You wish I would stay for a while…until you got bored. You can’t fool me.” / “But mayhap you would be the one to get bored,” he pointed out, although he did not really believe that. Leastways, it had never happened to him with other women. / “Well then, I would just have to make sure you worked extra hard to keep me unbored.” She grinned at him to demonstrate her meaning, as if he hadn’t understood that she meant sexplay.

Etymology 2

Verb

unbored

1. simple past and past participle of unbore

Anagrams

• bounder, rebound, unrobed