Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles easy. Juma's I know that life can sometimes be boring. Perhaps you're watching a boring movie. Perhaps you're having a boring conversation. To be honest, there's nothing more boring than waiting for a bus without your mobile phone. Oh, my goodness. But please, guys, let's stop saying the world boring. There are so many creative alternatives, and here they are, just for you. Okay, Number one and easy sitting in Dull Doe and means boring. Exactly the same. That film was really dull. Perfect. Okay, dollars dishwater or Dallas ditch water. It's up to you. You can play about with it. Bit more creative are that film was dull as dishwater. A person could be his Dallas dishwater. Oh, I get it. Thank God they're gonna He's just as dishwater. Brilliant. Okay, Number three. Tedious. Tedious. I love it. Tedious. Your commute to work could be tedious. Man, My commute is so tedious. If you're a uni student, you could describe the lecture is being tedious. If you're at work today and you're in a meeting, perhaps that was tedious. So many options for this word. Tedious. Okay, next one. I love this one. Dry, dry. If something is dry It's boring, yes, but also quite serious. So, for example, maybe you're reading a book. Maybe it's a Children's book right on, but it's it's just not exciting is just really too serious and just no life to it. You could say, Wow, this books really dry? Sorry, kids, let's read something else. Like this book is really dry. It's really uninspiring. In many ways. Perhaps you've just gone on a first date and you having a conversation with someone and then offers. You're telling your friend You say what? The conversation was really dry like nothing. There was just no excitement. There was no interest. It was a bit serious. Nothing to get excited about. Dry. I love this one. Monotonous, monotonous. This is when it's boring because it doesn't change, so it could be a sound. Could be a voice. Could be your life monotonous. It's the same every time. They don't sound any different, and maybe you want to cry because you're so bored inside. But we can't say the word board because that's boring, so we're going to say the word monotonous. Tom's Voice is extremely main office because it hasn't changed pitch or tone or intonation at all. Oh, my goodness. I can't believe you watch this, OK? All right. I'm sorry about that. Next one. Humdrum, Humdrum. That's brilliant. I love the sound of that. It's the same idea, right? That nothing new happens the same thing. So your life could be humdrum. A town or a village or a city Could be humdrum night. Nothing new happened. I've moved to a really humdrum town in Wales. Okay, if we want to be extremely bored, we could say mind numbing, mind numbing. Ah, think about what that is. So your mind gets So, boy, that switches off. It becomes numb, right? I'm sure it was talking to you. Be like, Dude, I'm so bored right now. I'm just switching off. Can't believe we're watching this film. Why are we watching this film? I'm so bored when you switch up the film, I'll come back again And you like please? OK, I'll start watching the film would do something else. Would you want to do play cards, go for a ride? What you want to do anything but I just done. I'm so numb right now. I'm really sorry. We won't watch again. I'm sorry Okay, let's move into food now. The word bland is perfect. If you want to describe food that has no taste, it has no excitement. Is just It is boring. If it doesn't do anything, you could say it's bland. It has no flavor. It has no taste. My cooking is definitely not bland, I promise you, it's not returning back to the idea that something is boring. But is it? Nothing ever changes, you could say Mundane, mundane and again. Same idea, right? So a conversation could be mundane, mundane conversation. My day today, I was pretty mundane day like nothing interesting happened. Nothing new happened mundane. Oh, this is a nice one. Dreary, dreary. Now this is boring, Andi. It makes you a little bit unhappy as well. So, for example, weather could be dreary. So it's like if it's raining like a little bit like drizzling like all day. Great clouds, you could say, Well, the weather is really dreary, like it's boring and it makes your sad life could be dreary. He lived a very dreary life, his one with another twist. Drab, drab. This is lacking in color so we could have a drab city you have a drab area neighborhood. You have drab clothes like I help. It's a bit drab. I think we need a bit of color like it's lacking in color is boring because it lacks color. It's no really interesting if we're thinking about songs or movies, things that that we could say forgettable, forgettable because it was so boring. Nothing happened. It was not interesting that we don't even remember it. I went to a play the other day, and it was entirely forgettable. The whole two hours, nothing happened. Nothing happened. Completely forgettable, all right, and I've saved my favorite one till last. It's an idiom Tow. Watch paint dry to watch paint dry. Think about that idea watching paint dry probably one of the most boring activities in the world. So if something is like watching paint dry you were describing is being boring. Like that football match was like watching paint dry. Or you could say, like I'd rather watch paint dry, like maybe your friend has told you to watch Love Island and your life. To be honest, I'd rather watch paint dry. I'd rather watch paint dry like the idea of watching Love Island is so boring to me that I'd rather watch paint dry. Now I'd love to know. What's that in your language? How do you translate that? Is there an equivalent off watching paint dry? Do you do something else on? Also, guys, if you cannot lucky to leave a comment below using one of these phrases, Try not to describe this video as, like watching paint dry. Okay. Okay, guys, Thank you so much for watching This is home. The chief dreamer sang goodbye.
B1 dry paint tedious monotonous watching film STOP SAYING "Boring"....it's BORING! 26 0 林宜悉 posted on 2020/04/23 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary