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Meanings of ennui in English

Portuguese
apatia
Catalan
tedi
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The feeling of being bored by something tedious.

        apatia

        They have just broken up. The woman feels miserable and keeps crying. Every time after she falls asleep, she wakes up in a different location.

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              Usage of ennui in English
              1
              The former is called ennui, and the latter is in his heart.
              An Egyptian Princess — Volume 08
              2
              The latter was probably an unconscious ennui, a half-frightened sense of adventure.
              The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
              3
              And it said, All theoretic changes have ended in blood and ennui.
              The Napoleon of Notting Hill
              4
              By the end of the second winter ennui weighed heavily on them.
              Pierrette
              5
              Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
              Leaves of Grass
              6
              I write to kill ennui, and I take a pleasure in writing.
              The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
              7
              There was enough excitement in camp to prevent any danger of ennui.
              The Red Acorn
              8
              The ennui and emptiness of her life afterwards made her feel regret.
              Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
              9
              Without the visits of Monsieur Fortnoye I should be dead of ennui.
              Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
              10
              As the time passed and danger of intrusion lessened, his ennui increased.
              The Honorable Percival
              11
              Reuben could no longer disguise the ennui under which he was labouring.
              The Emancipated
              12
              Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
              The new yorker
              13
              My complaints are, I believe, the offspring of ennui and unsettled prospects.
              The Life of George Borrow
              14
              Before long he would be given over to dullness and immitigable ennui.
              The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
              15
              Life assumed an even tenor, and I yawned occasionally from sheer ennui.
              I Married a Ranger
              16
              She could not bear ennui nor constraint, nor had she any vanity.
              Cosmopolis — Volume 2
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