boring vs tense

boring

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

  • 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. 

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

  • A pit or hole which has been bored. 

tense

adj
  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. 

  • Pulled taut, without any slack. 

noun
  • Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. 

verb
  • To apply a tense to. 

  • To make tense. 

  • To become tense. 

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