be bothered
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To have the enthusiasm (to do something).
Example Sentences
- "I can't be bothered to clean the house today."
- "He can't be bothered drying all those dishes."
- "An egg and rasher of bacon for breakfast supply quite enough nitrogenous food for the day. Sometimes I have a treat. A cauliflower, etc. But generally I can't be bothered."
- "This takes effort. It can be a lot of work. So, you see, magick is not an easy short-cut to achieving something because you can't be bothered to get it any other way."
- "I've been using a computer instead of a typewriter for four years now, but I can't speak the language at all. I don't need it, and I can't be bothered unless it's going to be useful. The only kind of mouse I recognize is the four-legged variety, and I can't tell a bit from a byte."
Inflected Forms
is bothered (present, singular)
being bothered (participle, present)
was bothered (past)
been bothered (participle, past)