Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - bored

~ adj tired and impatient because you do not think something is interesting, or because you have nothing to do  (Children easily get bored.)  (I'm bored with the same old routine day after day.) bored stiff/to tears/to death/out of your mind (=extremely bored)  (You'd be bored stiff in a job like that.)  ( USAGE NOTE: BORED WORD CHOICE bored, boring, interested in, interesting, frightened of, frightening With pairs of adjectives like this, the one ending in -ed describes the person who has the feeling, the one ending in -ing describes whatever gives them that feeling I got bored watching TV/talking to Susan. | TV/Susan was boring. | I'm interested in their summer courses (NOT I interested in... or I was interesting in/on... or I was interested of/on/with/about...). | Don't be frightened of it - it isn't really frightening. GRAMMAR You will hear people say they are bored of something but many people think only bored with is correct She's getting really bored with her job. )