Get bored means to start feeling bored when something stops being interesting. Get bored with or of something means to get tired of something repetitive: I got bored with the game means the game stopped being fun for me.
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get bored with/of + noun/-ing; get bored quickly/easily; get bored doing + something
- Kids get bored quickly on long car journeys, so we always bring games.
- I got bored with the online course after a month and found a live teacher.
- If you get bored at the airport, the bookshop near gate 12 is open all night.
What changed
First versionI got bored of you while you were in Spain!
RevisionI missed you while you were in Spain!
Bored is about losing interest, so I got bored of you means you got tired of the person. When you want to say you felt sad because someone wasn't there, English uses miss: I missed you. The correction replaces got bored of with missed.
Bored and boring get confused all the time. I'm bored means I feel bored. I'm boring means I'm a dull person. A film, a lecture or a trip is boring: The lecture was boring, so I got bored.
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The film was so slow that after twenty minutes I ___ and started checking my phone.
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got bored — It was the speaker who started to feel bored, so got bored. Got boring would mean the speaker turned into a dull person, not that the film bored them.
Describe a situation in which you get bored quickly. Say how you deal with it.
I get bored quickly in long queues, so I always listen to a podcast while I wait.
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