diff --git a/contrib/boost b/contrib/boost
index 5a3fb87e67c..ae94606a70f 160000
--- a/contrib/boost
+++ b/contrib/boost
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 5a3fb87e67cc67ffadfc1990b3665fc3b260fcf4
+Subproject commit ae94606a70f1e298ce2a5718db858079185c4d9c
diff --git a/contrib/boost-cmake/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/boost-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
index 7c2f2b27c47..343e863e496 100644
--- a/contrib/boost-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/boost-cmake/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,18 +25,16 @@ if (OS_LINUX)
     )
 endif ()
 
-# headers-only
 
+# headers-only
 add_library (_boost_headers_only INTERFACE)
 add_library (boost::headers_only ALIAS _boost_headers_only)
 target_include_directories (_boost_headers_only SYSTEM BEFORE INTERFACE ${LIBRARY_DIR})
 
-# asio
-
 target_compile_definitions (_boost_headers_only INTERFACE
   BOOST_ASIO_STANDALONE=1
-  # Avoid using of deprecated in c++ > 17 std::result_of
-  BOOST_ASIO_HAS_STD_INVOKE_RESULT=1
+  BOOST_ASIO_HAS_STD_INVOKE_RESULT=1 # Avoid using of deprecated in c++ > 17 std::result_of
+  BOOST_TIMER_ENABLE_DEPRECATED=1 # wordnet-blast (enabled via USE_NLP) uses Boost legacy timer classes
 )
 
 # iostreams