Ennui

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: "The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters” ( John Barth).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression (Wikipedia).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A feeling of weariness and disgust; dullness and languor of spirits, arising from satiety or want of interest; tedium.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A painful or wearisome state of mind due to the want of any object of interest, or to enforced attention to something destitute of interest; the condition of being bored; tedium.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  • Antonym
    vivacity    gayety   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    weariness   
    Hyponym
    blahs    fatigue   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tedium    boredom    boreism   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bluey    Dewey    Fukui    Huey    Hughie    Louis    Sui    bluey    buoy    chewy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boredom    weariness    satiety    lassitude    unhappiness    restlessness    apathy    dreariness    tedium    despondency