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ennuyé en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from French ennuyé.

Meanings

1. Affected with ennui; bored.
   • You must open your doors to your friend at all hours; if when inside it suit him to sing, sing he will; and until you learn solitude in a crowd, or the art of concentration, you are apt to become ennuyé and irritable. 1856, Richard F. Burton, First Footsteps in East Africa, Könemann, published 2000, page 49:
   • Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world. 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:

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