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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 fact or state of being boring, or of feeling bored

Common, having no unique or outstanding characteristics

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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

put your head down

put your feet up

get some shuteye

get your head down

sleep like a baby

go up the stairs to Bedfordshire

catch some zeds

get forty winks

have a good night's sleep

fall fast asleep

catch some few Zs

turn into a pumpkin

take a breather

refresh oneself

recharge one's batteries

let it all hang out

make yourself at home

entertain oneself

come up for air

catch one's breath

let yourself go

compose oneself

let your hair down

collect oneself

get comfortable

stop for a breath

take a load off

catch a few 'z' s

take one's time

make less tense

suspend proceedings

take one's leisure

have a breather

take a chill pill

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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

run out of steam

become exhausted

wear oneself to a shadow

run into the ground

wear oneself to a frazzle

wear yourself out

tire yourself out

drain of energy

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Noun

Someone or something that inspires boredom

mind-numbing experience

poor performance

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

bane of one's life

source of vexation

source of difficulty

source of aggravation

burr under someone's saddle

burr in someone's saddle

source of trouble

inopportuneness

pain in the behind

thorn in your side

cause of annoyance

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 fact or state of being boring, or of feeling bored

dissatisfaction

world-weariness

lack of variety

lack of variation

lack of excitement

featurelessness

lack of interest

uninterestingness

commonplaceness

unimaginativeness

repetitiousness

unchangeableness

unremarkableness

standardization^US

standardisation^UK

characterlessness

lack of diversity

conventionality

flavourlessness

lack of originality

lack of inspiration

lack of imagination

lack of flavour

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Adjective

Common, having no unique or outstanding characteristics

undistinguished

straightforward

run-of-the-mill

run of the mill

middle-of-the-road

common or garden

nothing to write home about

no great shakes

dull as dishwater

run-of-the-mine

nothing special

fair-to-middling

lacking variety

nothing to get excited about

lacking interest

lacking excitement

non-stimulating

par for the course

fair to middling

unprepossessing

soul-destroying

dull as ditchwater

inconsequential

lacking variation

middle of the road

of no consequence

blending into the background

unobjectionable

standardized^US

standardised^UK

unextraordinary

run-of-the mill

not amounting to much

without variety

flat as pancake

puts one to sleep

unsophisticated

of little consequence

of little importance

not worth mentioning

of no importance

of no great concern

one-size-fits-all

recognizable^US

recognisable^UK

lacking vitality

two-dimensional

matter-of-course

well established

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