BLAHS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

blahs

noun

plural of blah

as in boredom

the state of being bored I've just been stuck in the blahs lately

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boredom

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Cooke samples an absorbing range of hoaxes, from the college students who convinced the world that an imaginary Scotsman had invented the electric toaster to the Chinese housewife who fabricated an entire war out of boredom.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
And from that boredom, a different kind of will, the willfulness that accompanies a need to destroy that happiness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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