alone vs boring

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

boring

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

  • Capable of penetrating; piercing. 

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

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

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

  • A pit or hole which has been bored. 

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