ennui
A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredomA gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
Langeweile, Apathie, Depression
ску́каskúka, тоска́toská, тоска́toská
- the feeling of being bored by something tedious
Examples
3 sentencesWe're dying of ennui.
Ми помираємо від нудьги. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
A great black night wrapped the city in an oppressively comforting ennui.
Idleness begets ennui.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (moUnadapted 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.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: ennuisSynonyms
4 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary 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.