bored out of one's mind
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6.1
- idiom
- Informal
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aburrido hasta la médula
- First in a four-book series, Libba introduces Evie O'Neill, a small-town girl who is bored out of her mind with small-town life and looking for excitement around every corner.
- just bored out of my mind
Examples
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After watching the same movie three times, I was bored out of my mind.
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By the end of my first week on Chincoteague, I'd contracted a near-terminal case of island fever; bored out of my mind, I liberated a small dinghy.
Fiction book (1995) -
I was bored out of my mind.
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Justice is obviously bored out of her mind.
Fiction book (1993) -
The boy is bored out of his mind.
Blog text (26) -
I'm bored out of my mind.
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I'm bored out of my mind.
Blog text (7) -
I was so bored out of my mind, I ended up sitting in the parking lot at the testing center playing Scrabble on my iPod for the third hour.
Blog text (9) -
I find Joe, a 60-year-old hospital cafeteria employee, in the food court looking suitably bored out of his mind.
Blog text (5) -
Josi doesn't want to leave my side, but I can tell she's bored out of her mind, and her mind is probably going to mush with all the TV she's been watching.
Blog text (22)
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling not interested and tired from doing the same thing too much
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9.9
Feeling very tired of something and not interested at all
Antonyms
How Bored
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is partly derivable: 'bored' + the phrase 'out of one's mind' signals an extreme state, so a learner who knows the constituents can often guess it means very bored. However, 'out of one's mind' functions here as an idiomatic intensifier (and can mean other things like 'crazy' in different contexts), so the exact usage is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The phrase bored out of one's mind may come from the old idea of 'bore' meaning 'to make a hole'. Imagine something drilling your head until the inside is empty. That's why the phrase means 'to be extremely bored'.