ennui

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɒnˈwiː/
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• General-American: /ɑnˈwi/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -iː
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• CMU ARPABET: EH0 N UW1 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h3ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odium Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin inodiāre Old French enuier? Old French enui French ennuiubor. English ennui Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: скука (skuka) — listlessness, boredom
• Czech: otrávenost — listlessness, boredom
• Czech: znuděnost — listlessness, boredom
• Danish: kedsomhed — listlessness, boredom
• Danish: sløvhed — listlessness, boredom
• Danish: ligegyldighed — listlessness, boredom
• Danish: apati — listlessness, boredom
• Dutch: lusteloosheid — listlessness, boredom
• Dutch: verveling — listlessness, boredom
• Esperanto: enuo — listlessness, boredom
• Faroese: keðsemi — listlessness, boredom
• Finnish: ikävystyminen — listlessness, boredom
• Finnish: ikävyys — listlessness, boredom
• Finnish: tylsyys — listlessness, boredom
• French: apathie — listlessness, boredom
• French: indolence — listlessness, boredom
• German: Langeweile — listlessness, boredom
• German: Apathie — listlessness, boredom
• Hungarian: kedvtelenség — listlessness, boredom
• Hungarian: közöny — listlessness, boredom
• Hungarian: unalom — listlessness, boredom
• Icelandic: leiðindi — listlessness, boredom
• Ido: tedo — listlessness, boredom
• Irish: atuirse — listlessness, boredom
• Irish: bailitheacht — listlessness, boredom
• Irish: liostacht — listlessness, boredom
• Italian: noia — listlessness, boredom
• Italian: tedio — listlessness, boredom
• Japanese: 無聊 (buryō) — listlessness, boredom
• Japanese: つれづれ (tsurezure) — listlessness, boredom
• Japanese: アンニュイ (annyui) — listlessness, boredom
• Latin: taedium — listlessness, boredom
• Māori: ro(w)hea — listlessness, boredom
• Middle English: noy — listlessness, boredom
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjedsomhet — listlessness, boredom
• Norwegian Nynorsk: keisemd — listlessness, boredom
• Polish: znużenie — listlessness, boredom
• Portuguese: tédio — listlessness, boredom
• Portuguese: enfado — listlessness, boredom
• Portuguese: fastio — listlessness, boredom
• Russian: ску́ка (skúka) — listlessness, boredom
• Russian: тоска́ (toská) — listlessness, boredom
• Spanish: tedio — listlessness, boredom
• Spanish: aburrimiento — listlessness, boredom
• Spanish: apatía — listlessness, boredom
• Spanish: enuí — listlessness, boredom
• Swedish: leda — listlessness, boredom
• Swedish: tristess — listlessness, boredom
• Swedish: långtråkighet — listlessness, boredom
• Tagalog: pantot — listlessness, boredom
• Turkish: sıkıntı — listlessness, boredom
• Turkish: usanç — listlessness, boredom
• Turkish: bıkkınlık — listlessness, boredom
• Turkish: bezginlik — listlessness, boredom
• Welsh: diflastod — listlessness, boredom
• Danish: depression — melancholia, depression
• Danish: melankoli — melancholia, depression
• Danish: tungsind — melancholia, depression
• Danish: sørgmodighed — melancholia, depression
• Esperanto: enuo — melancholia, depression
• Finnish: ikävä — melancholia, depression
• French: mélancolie — melancholia, depression
• French: dépression — melancholia, depression
• German: Depression — melancholia, depression
• German: Melancholie — melancholia, depression
• Icelandic: lífsleiði — melancholia, depression
• Icelandic: óyndi — melancholia, depression
• Irish: lagsprid — melancholia, depression
• Italian: malinconia — melancholia, depression
• Italian: depressione — melancholia, depression
• Japanese: 憂鬱 (yūutsu) — melancholia, depression
• Japanese: もの憂さ (monousa) — melancholia, depression
• Japanese: アンニュイ (annyui) — melancholia, depression
• Polish: depresja — melancholia, depression
• Polish: melancholia — melancholia, depression
• Portuguese: melancolia — melancholia, depression
• Portuguese: depressão — melancholia, depression
• Russian: тоска́ (toská) — melancholia, depression
• Russian: хандра́ (xandrá) — melancholia, depression
• Spanish: melancolía — melancholia, depression
• Turkish: bunaltı — melancholia, depression
• Turkish: bunluk — melancholia, depression
• Turkish: buhran — melancholia, depression
• Turkish: melal — melancholia, depression
• Welsh: diflastod — melancholia, depression