boring vs dead-and-alive

boring

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. 

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

  • A pit or hole which has been bored. 

dead-and-alive

adj
  • Synonym of dead-alive 

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