mind-numbing
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6.5
- adjective
- /maɪndˈnʌmɪŋ/
- Informal
- Others prove a mind-numbing exercise in groupthink.
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Watch on YouTubeFinally, engage in any mind numbing household chore.
- Finally, engage in any mind numbing household chore.
- And then you wind up settling and you just watch that mind numbing content.
- It was also it coincided with Ella's spring break, which can be mind numbing because like it's the the trio of us just trying to navigate Ella's interests.
- And it would be just mind numbing, like horrible sentences, words.
- It could be a little mind numbing, you know, but it was, you know, but it was about.
Examples
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It's mind-numbing middle management, but I'm happy.
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Instead of fixing the problem, we nurse old grudges, debate mind-numbing statistics, and argue about who hurt whom first, the most, and when.
Academic text (2003) -
A break from her work, then back to mind-numbing details.
Fiction book (1990) -
Oh, the waiting is just mind-numbing.
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If you've ever done this, you know it can be a mind-numbing process.
Blog text (12) -
Arranging a vacation could be an extremely mind-numbing and somewhat tough task.
Blog text (5) -
Today's archaeologist lives in a world of mind-numbing detail, often important, frequently interesting.
Academic text (2006) -
The incessant phone calls, the non-stop television ads, the mind-numbing debates, the astonishing tons of junk mail... all over.
Blog text (15) -
The lecture was so mind-numbing that I struggled to stay awake.
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After spending hours in a mind-numbing meeting, she felt mentally drained.
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
87
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
37
4.1
Making you bored, annoyed, or mentally tired
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
19
3.6
Without energy or interest and making people feel bored
14
5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
9
6.5
Not exciting and having little variety
7
3.5
Not interesting or exciting
5
8.1
Not interesting and making you feel bored
3
3.2
Not interesting or exciting
2
7.0
Makes you feel tired or bored because it is repetitive
1
6.9
Making something feel very dull and boring
1
4.2
Makes someone unable to feel physically or emotionally
Very boring and hard to pay attention to
Does not interest, excite, or make people feel energetic
Not causing excitement or interest
Causes people to lose interest because it is dull
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mind-numbing joins mind and numb, and 'numb' means 'without feeling'. So something mind-numbing makes your mind feel 'without feeling', which is why it describes something extremely boring or dull.