🇬🇧🇪🇸 boredom - aburrimiento : English Lesson

Meaning of "boredom" ("aburrimiento"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Boredom is the heavy, sleepy feeling you get when nothing fun is happening, you have nothing interesting to do, or what you’re doing feels slow, dull, and not exciting at all.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My boredom got so bad during the car ride that I almost started talking to my seatbelt about its hopes and dreams.

During the long speech, my boredom grew a beard, learned to tap dance, and still had time left over.

The boredom in the waiting room was so strong that the magazines from 1997 started to look like exciting new bestsellers.

My boredom while waiting at the dentist made the fish in the waiting-room aquarium look like extreme action heroes.

The cat stared out the window in pure boredom until a leaf moved, and suddenly it had a full-time job again.

She watched the gray fields slide by, boredom settling like dust. Boredom made her tap the window, flip a brochure, stare at her empty hands, boredom knotting her chest. Boredom pulled at her smile until she laughed at nothing, breaking the spell. The laugh scared away the boredom, and she sat up, suddenly curious about the next station.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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