Alternatives for Boring

Alternatives is a recurring post in which I give synonyms for an over used word. Click on the tab above for a "complete" list of over used words.

Today's word is:

And I’m not talking about drilling… Personally I don't think I've ever been bored -- boring maybe, :) but never bored. I have become frustrated when I couldn't do something because of time constraints, lack of materials, lack of money, etc. There have certainly been times when I have become disinterested in something I was doing/seeing/listening to etc. In those cases I've moved on to something else. But bored? There's just too much to do, too many things to learn, places to go, books to read. I personally have never understood how/why people get bored. 

Depending on how you use it, this list may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.

annoying, arid, aseptic

barren, big yawn, blank, blah, bomb, bothersome, bromidic, bummer, by rote

characterless, cloying, colorless, common, commonplace, cumbersome

dead, debilitating, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, drab, drag, draining, dreary, drudging, dry, dry as dust, dull/dullish, dullard, dusty

earthbound, enfeebling, exhausting,

flat, fuddy-duddy

gray/grey

harp on the same thing, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum

inanimate, irksome, irritating, insipid, interminable

jading, fatiguing, jejune

leaden, lifeless, longsome, lumbering

mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane

nothing, nowhere, numbing

old, one note song, ordinary

pallid, palling, pedantic, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, pleasureless, plodding, poky/pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy

repetitious, routine

slow, soggy, spiritless stale, stereotyped, sterile, stodgy, stuffed shirt, stuffy, stupid, suspenselss

tame, tedious, tepid, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite

undramatic, uneventful, unexceptional, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninteresting, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular, unsurprising, unvaried

vapid

wearisome, weary, wearying, well-worn

yawnsome

zero

In case you still aren't sure what boring is, check out this very funny song!

So tell me, do you get bored? If so, what how do you combat it?