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Boredom

The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.

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Dissatisfaction 76% connected

The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and…

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Fatigue 76% connected

Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.

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Ennui 92% connected

A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tedium 92% connected

Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.

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Abandon noun · 77% connection

a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"

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Abashment noun · 77% connection

feeling embarrassed due to modesty

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Abhorrence noun · 77% connection

hate coupled with disgust

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Affect noun · 77% connection

the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

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ambivalence noun · 77% connection

mixed feelings or emotions

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Anger noun · 77% connection

a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

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Attachment noun · 77% connection

a feeling of affection for a person or an institution

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Complex noun · 77% connection

(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

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Dread noun · 77% connection

fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

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Electra complex noun · 77% connection

a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father

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Electricity noun · 77% connection

keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"

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Empathy noun · 77% connection

understanding and entering into another's feelings

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Favour noun · 77% connection

a feeling of favorable regard

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frisson noun · 77% connection

an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"

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Fulfilment noun · 77% connection

a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires

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Good will noun · 77% connection

the friendly hope that something will succeed

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Goodwill noun · 77% connection

the friendly hope that something will succeed

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Grievance noun · 77% connection

a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score"

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Auger noun · 78% connection

A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with b…

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Bobbin noun · 78% connection

A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its len…

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Borable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being bored.

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Bore noun · 78% connection

A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

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Bush noun · 78% connection

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

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Drawbore noun · 78% connection

A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the sh…

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Ennuye adjective · 78% connection

Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

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Ennuyee noun · 78% connection

A woman affected with ennui.

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Feather noun · 78% connection

A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

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Grab noun · 78% connection

An instrument for clutching objects for the purpose of raising them; -- specially applied to devices for withdrawing drills, etc., fro…

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Imperforable adjective · 78% connection

Incapable of being perforated, or bored through.

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Nicker verb · 78% connection

The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the ho…

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Pesterment noun · 78% connection

The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry.

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Shotgun noun · 78% connection

A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

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Sludger noun · 78% connection

A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

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Tamp verb · 78% connection

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force o…

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Torpedo noun · 78% connection

An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to…

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Witless adjective · 78% connection

(used as complement) to the utmost degree; "he was scared witless"; "the students were bored shitless"

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