addictive vs boring

addictive

adj
  • Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming. 

  • Enjoyable. 

  • Characterized by or susceptible to addiction. 

noun
  • Anything that is very habit-forming. 

  • A drug that causes an addiction. 

boring

noun
  • Fragment thrown up when something is bored or drilled. 

  • A pit or hole which has been bored. 

adj
  • Capable of penetrating; piercing. 

  • Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes. 

  • Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do. 

  • Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient. 

How often have the words addictive and boring occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )