deadening
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6.9
- adjective
- /ˈdɛdənɪŋ/
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aburrido
- One reason I rail against your rampant pessimism is the deadening effect it has, however realistic.
- deadening effects
And we have a whole literature sympathizing with the people stuck in these menial mine deadening, dangerous jobs.
- And we have a whole literature sympathizing with the people stuck in these menial mine deadening, dangerous jobs.
- I find that that's actually energizing to the creative process rather than deadening.
Examples
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Wasn't it enough for a nation to require its citizens to spend half their waking hours performing tasks that, even if they weren't deadening to begin with, had become so through monstrous repetition?
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm a stranger here, staring blankly in the windows, puzzled by the zeal with which people engage in these deadening tasks.
Fiction book (1995) -
Yet it ends as another, even more deadening barrier to open political engagement.
Academic text (2005) -
Every scene in Revolution carries the same deadening seriousness.
Blog text (2) -
It traps us in a monotonous, deadening cycle.
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Is there anything more exhausting, more deadening, more destructive than the fights you don't have?
Blog text (17) -
Before the correspondence ended, she amended the muted optimism of the close of Middlemarch to show in The Story of Avis (1877) the deadening effects of marriage on a woman's ambitions.
Fiction book (2001) -
The repetitive nature of the lecture created a deadening atmosphere in the classroom.
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His deadening routine made every day feel the same and left him feeling bored.
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They felt the deadening influence of the unvaried tasks at work, draining their enthusiasm.
Synonyms
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1.4
To make someone feel tired or not interested by being dull when you speak
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5.5
To make a feeling, sound, or pain less strong
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8.6
To make someone feel bored and without energy or interest
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7.2
To stop being interesting or enjoyable
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deadening comes from the common word dead ('not alive' or 'without feeling') plus the verb part -en meaning 'make'. So deadening is like 'making something dead or lifeless', which is why it describes something very dull or boring.