Crossword clue
Boredom crossword clue
4 words in our dictionary can answer the crossword clue "boredom", from as short as 5 letters up to 7, grouped below by the length of your slot.
Written by Blake Boege
Answers by length
Read the row that matches your slot. ENNUI is the shortest answer here and FATIGUE the longest.
| Letters | Answers |
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What this list looks like
2 of the 4 are not synonyms at all but specific kinds of what the clue describes.
Which one does the setter mean?
Five squares is ENNUI. It is the answer to this clue with remarkable consistency, because it is short, French, vowel-heavy and means precisely this and nothing else.
How these differ
ENNUI is boredom with a philosophical edge: a listlessness arising from finding nothing worth doing, which is why it attaches to nineteenth-century novels. TEDIUM is boredom caused by a specific dull thing, so a task is tedious but a life is full of ennui. THE BLAHS is American and informal and covers a mild low mood as much as boredom. FATIGUE is the weakest fit here and belongs to the sense of being weary of something rather than tired by it, as in compassion fatigue.
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Where these answers come from
No puzzle was consulted to build this page. Every word above is recorded by WordNet as meaning “boredom” or as naming a kind of it, and each one is in the 173,000-wordlist this site searches. Moby Thesaurus lists 3 of them too. We hold no newspaper's answer key and reproduce no published crossword.
Common questions
- What is the answer to the crossword clue "boredom"?
- There is more than one. 4 words in our dictionary fit this clue, and which one a puzzle wants depends on the length of the slot and the crossing letters. Five squares is ENNUI. It is the answer to this clue with remarkable consistency, because it is short, French, vowel-heavy and means precisely this and nothing else.
- How many letters is the answer to "boredom"?
- Anything from 5 to 7. The length with the most candidates is 5. Count the squares in your grid and read only that row of the table.
- How reliable are these answers?
- 3 of the 4 appear in two independently compiled reference works, WordNet and Moby Thesaurus, rather than one. All of them are in the 173,000-word dictionary this site searches. None of them comes from any published puzzle.