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To be, or cause to be, wide open

To go to sleep, or fall asleep

To cause to become tired, weary or fatigued

Someone or something that inspires boredom

The state of feeling or being bored

Lacking in imagination or originality

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Verb

To be, or cause to be, wide open

“A gulf would yawn once again between nature and human intelligence.”

Verb

To go to sleep, or fall asleep

be in the arms of morpheus

be in the land of nod

have a lie-down

rest in the arms of morpheus

catch forty winks

be dead to the world

get some shut-eye

go out like a light

have forty winks

take forty winks

be in the land of Nod

sleep like a log

sleep like a top

snatch forty winks

be in the arms of Morpheus

rest in the arms of Morpheus

get some shuteye

put your feet up

get forty winks

catch some zeds

get your head down

catch some few Zs

go up the stairs to Bedfordshire

turn into a pumpkin

stretch oneself out

be stretched out

take a breather

refresh oneself

recharge one's batteries

let it all hang out

entertain oneself

make yourself at home

come up for air

compose oneself

collect oneself

let yourself go

catch one's breath

let your hair down

take a load off

put your head down

catch a few 'z' s

suspend proceedings

take one's time

make less tense

take a chill pill

have a breather

take one's leisure

stop for a breath

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Verb

To cause to become tired, weary or fatigued

wear to a frazzle

become fatigued

cause weariness

get the better of

wear oneself to a shadow

run into the ground

wear oneself to a frazzle

run out of steam

become exhausted

drain of energy

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Noun

Someone or something that inspires boredom

mind-numbing experience

tiresome person

pain in the neck

pain in the bum

source of annoyance

pain in the backside

pain in the rear

boring situation

source of irritation

thorn in the flesh

thorn in one's side

source of vexation

bane of one's life

source of difficulty

source of aggravation

burr under someone's saddle

burr in someone's saddle

source of trouble

thorn in your side

cause of annoyance

inopportuneness

pain in the behind

source of disruption

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“She'd acted like coming down for her cousin's sixteenth birthday was going to be nothing but a big yawn.”

Noun

The state of feeling or being bored

dissatisfaction

uninterestedness

world-weariness

lack of concern

lack of enthusiasm

lack of variety

lack of variation

lack of interest

lack of excitement

featurelessness

long-windedness

interminableness

disconsolateness

heavy-heartedness

downheartedness

repetitiousness

unchangeableness

lack of vitality

non-intervention

unresponsiveness

discontentedness

dispassionateness

clinical depression

postnatal depression

endogenous depression

heaviness of heart

slough of despond

one's black dog

reactive depression

heavyheartedness

disinterestedness

emotionlessness

lack of involvement

halfheartedness

lack of motivation

uncaring attitude

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Adjective

Lacking in imagination or originality

undistinguished

run of the mill

run-of-the-mill

straightforward

matter-of- fact

middle-of-the-road

common or garden

nothing to write home about

no great shakes

fair-to-middling

run-of-the-mine

dull as dishwater

fair to middling

unexceptionable

nothing special

lacking variety

par for the course

standardized^US

standardised^UK

inconsequential

nothing to get excited about

sufficiently good

moderately good

lacking variation

matter-of-course

non-stimulating

unobjectionable

soul-destroying

nothing out of the ordinary

of no consequence

past their sell-by date

dull as ditchwater

lacking excitement

lacking interest

of poor quality

blending into the background

unextraordinary

readily available

widely available

nothing to shout about

barely adequate

well established

unsophisticated

of little consequence

of little importance

not worth mentioning

of no importance

of no great concern

recognizable^US

one-size-fits-all

recognisable^UK

without variety

across the board

neither one thing nor the other

puts one to sleep

flat as pancake

better than nothing

only to be expected

individualistic

taken for granted

tried and tested

completely understandable

middle of the road

cheap and commonplace

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