No. 3,607 in Turkish
sıkıcı
Boring.
In a sentence
Dün izlediğimiz film sıkıcıydı.
The movie we watched yesterday was boring.
In this sentence, 'sıkıcı' is used as an adjective to describe the nature of the movie, indicating that it was uninteresting or tedious.
Bazen uzun toplantılar çok sıkıcı olabiliyor.
Sometimes, long meetings can be very boring.
Here, 'sıkıcı' is again an adjective, used to express that long meetings tend to lack engagement or stimulation, thus feeling boring.
Bu kitabı okumak biraz sıkıcı gibi görünüyor.
Reading this book seems a bit boring.
In this sentence, 'sıkıcı' is used adjectivally to describe the perceived nature of the activity of reading the book, which appears tediously uninteresting.
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