Crossword-Solution: BOREDOM 7 letters, 104 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Boredom n. The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Boredom n. The realm of bores; bores, collectively.

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BOREDOM anagram BEDROOM, BROOMED

We have 104 clues for the answer “BOREDOM”

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"Against __ even gods struggle in vain": Nietzsche 1 answer
A rut often leads to it 1 answer
Along with pain, one of "the two enemies of human happiness," per Schopenhauer 1 answer
Anagram of "bedroom" 1 answer
Cause of yawning, perhaps 1 answer
Condition that might bring you to tears? 1 answer
Emma Bovary's undoing. 1 answer
Feeling at a tedious lecture 1 answer
Feeling during a tedious meeting 1 answer
Lack of divertissement. 1 answer
Lack of engagement 1 answer
Mantra of ennui? 1 answer
Monotony's result 1 answer
Nothing-to-do feeling 1 answer
One reason for oscitancy 1 answer
Opposite of engagement 1 answer
Playboy's nemesis. 1 answer
Playboy's problem. 1 answer
Reason to doodle 1 answer
Reason to draw a doodle, maybe 1 answer
Reason to stare off into space 1 answer
Reason to start bingeing a show 1 answer
Routine result 1 answer
Sleep inducer, perhaps 1 answer
State that makes you stiff? 1 answer
Undesired audience reaction 1 answer
Yawning cause 1 answer
disinterest or apathy 1 answer
state of being bored 1 answer
state of being weary 1 answer
the feeling of being bored by something tedious 1 answer
Feeling on a lo-o-ong car trip 2 answers
Yawn causer 2 answers
Cause of many yawns 2 answers
Cause of yawning 2 answers
Cause of yawns 2 answers
Yawn inducer 4 answers
The blahs 4 answers
mental weariness 4 answers
ENJOYMENT (ant.) 6 answers
Lack of interest 6 answers
A STIFLED YAWN 10 answers
CAUSE TO YAWN 10 answers
Disinterest 15 answers
[yawn] 21 answers
YEAR in year out 26 answers
insensitiveness 49 answers
languidness 49 answers
Debilitation 50 answers
mediocrity 50 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOREDOM (5)

When the IAS men returned, they found Miles stretching and exer- cising his svelte 5' 9" physique to help relieve the boredom.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
She was an unusually original and attractive creature, to whom he had wanted to give a few days of harmless pleasuring, and who was alert and expert enough to understand his intention and spare him the boredom of hesitations and misinterpretations.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce—the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice—but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Lombard’s face expressed a gentle disappointment, which might have been boredom in a person of acuter sensibilities.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995
The dogs were led by attendants, apparently selected on the principle of the larger the dog the smaller the custodian; while the donkeys were the only creatures unmoved by their surroundings, for they slept peaceably through the procession, occasionally waking up to bray their sense of boredom.
Three Elephant Power Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 2008

Quotes with BOREDOM (3)

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.
Robin Hobb The Mad Ship
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. M…
Emil M. Cioran
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
Christopher Moore Island of the Sequined Love Nun
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 48 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).