Meaning

1 senses

  1. To make bored or listless; to weary.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. We're dying of ennui.

    Ми помираємо від нудьги. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

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  2. A great black night wrapped the city in an oppressively comforting ennui.

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  3. Idleness begets ennui.

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Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (mo

Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.

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Forms

ennuis, ennuying, ennuied, ennuied
Base formennui · to ennui
3rd person singularennuis
Present participleennuying
Past simpleennuied / ennuyed
Past participleennuied / ennuyed

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyennui
he, she, itennuis

Past simpleLesson

all personsennuied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ennuied
he, she, ithas ennuied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ennui

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
enlistenlivenenmityennobleenormityenormousA2enormouslyC1enoughA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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