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Meanings of ennui in English
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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Examples for "boredom"
Examples for "boredom"
1
Despite the boredom, we cooperated, thinking that perhaps these were necessary measures.
2
The print media also would have problems: space, manpower - and boredom.
3
It was also evident that boredom would certainly never be a problem.
4
Right, here's a simple way to cure to cure your tea-time boredom.
5
Youthful disaffection and boredom spirals outward into political power-play and catastrophic violence.
1
It served to relieve some of the tedium of that second year:
2
But I was spared soon the tedium and discomforts of the journey.
3
It was his bright, dry, daily ordeal, his personal measure of tedium.
4
Her life had much in it of laborious tedium-tediumnever-ending and monotonous.
5
I have not your resources for beguiling the tedium of the way.
Usage of ennui in English
1
The former is called ennui, and the latter is in his heart.
2
The latter was probably an unconscious ennui, a half-frightened sense of adventure.
3
And it said, All theoretic changes have ended in blood and ennui.
4
By the end of the second winter ennui weighed heavily on them.
5
Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
6
I write to kill ennui, and I take a pleasure in writing.
7
There was enough excitement in camp to prevent any danger of ennui.
8
The ennui and emptiness of her life afterwards made her feel regret.
9
Without the visits of Monsieur Fortnoye I should be dead of ennui.
10
As the time passed and danger of intrusion lessened, his ennui increased.
11
Reuben could no longer disguise the ennui under which he was labouring.
12
Mr. Davis whiled away the time by composing a sonnet about ennui.
13
My complaints are, I believe, the offspring of ennui and unsettled prospects.
14
Before long he would be given over to dullness and immitigable ennui.
15
Life assumed an even tenor, and I yawned occasionally from sheer ennui.
16
She could not bear ennui nor constraint, nor had she any vanity.
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Ennui through the time
Ennui across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common