Boring and Keen

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Boring adjective - Causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest.

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Keen and boring are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keen" instead an adjective "Boring".

Nearby Words: bore, bored

Keen adjective - Able to sense slight impressions or differences.

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Boring and keen are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boring" instead an adjective "Keen".

Nearby Words: keenness, keenly

Commander Keen had an underwater level (The Well of Wishes), and it was boring.

Source: Atlantis Is Boring
She's not keen on people knowing her plain, boring actual first name.

Source: Series / Fresh Meat
Experimenting with different styles of font and background colour is all very well and in the eyes of a keen designer, probably a lot more fulfilling than that boring unimaginative black-type-on-white-page, but what got lost in the enthusiasm was that it still has to be readable.

Source: Magazine / Fortean Times

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