Boring and Serious

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

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

Nearby Words: bore, bored

Serious adjective - Not joking or playful in mood or manner.

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Boring and serious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Boring" instead an adjective "Serious".

Nearby Words: seriously, seriousness

Subtrope of Bait and Switch and Anti-Humor (which is when you set up a punchline or a gag...and there just isn't one, or there's something serious or boring in its place).

Source: Subverted Punchline
The Spartans also had an extremely serious disadvantages which is so boring but important it is typically overlooked.

Source: Boring But Practical / Real Life
Wesley is too essentially serious to play a fribble role at all, and instead is assumed by most people to be a dull, puritanical workaholic too boring to be a vigilante.

Source: Comic Book / Sandman Mystery Theatre

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