Ennui Definition

ŏn-wē, ŏnwē
noun
Weariness and dissatisfaction resulting from inactivity or lack of interest; boredom.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Ennui

  • Borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (see ennuyer and annoy), from Vulgar Latin inodiare, from Latin odium (“hate”)

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French enui from ennuyer to annoy, bore annoy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ennui Sentence Examples

  • An old-fashioned man would have lost his senses or died of ennui before this.

  • He suffers from an overwhelming sense of ennui and feels that he has far too much time on his hands and far too little with which to fill it.

  • It leaves the rest of his life utterly empty, and he vacillates between amorous intensity and general ennui.

  • If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

  • If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

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Words Starting With

EENENN

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IUINUI

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