stultifying
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˈstʌltɪˌfaɪɪŋ/
- Formal
:
aburrido
- Participating in evening meetings also provided an edifying alternative to the alluring but spiritually stultifying amusements that the city offered.
Finally, a clash was inevitable between their creative drive and the stultifying system.
- Finally, a clash was inevitable between their creative drive and the stultifying system.
- If we want to fix the person we're with in a certain mould and never let them out of that mould, that's stultifying for both people.
- I was America's friendly Muslim, but I, I found the character to be narrow and, and stultifying.
- I know that's not race, but I mean, this is not a stultified, closed, inflexible, domineering society.
- You know, I mean, that's, it's, it's very stultifying.
Examples
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Men, as well as women, have been liberated from the stultifying sexual roles that have for so long deprived them of the ability to function in a truly human way.
Fiction book (1996) -
"What happens that becomes stultifying is you stop learning and you stop the machinery, so it starts dying."
Blog text (32) -
Finally, a clash was inevitable between their creative drive and the stultifying system.
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And the corporate environment, with its relentless emphasis on results, has become stultifying.
Blog text (32) -
During his two decades at the firm, however, Lester had kept whatever fleeting reservations he had about his stultifying vocation to himself.
Fiction book (1996) -
If we want to fix the person we're with in a certain mould and never let them out of that mould, that's stultifying for both people.
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Further, Dubliners, as a title, expresses the naturalist's thesis that the systematically frustrated lives described have been determined by the stultifying environment of Dublin.
Academic text (1991) -
As Cohen and Brawer stated, "Beneath the stultifying sameness of a curriculum comprising primarily introductory courses, a notable variety can be perceived."
Academic text (2007) -
The teacher's stultifying lectures made it hard for students to stay engaged.
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Endless paperwork can be stultifying, draining the excitement out of creative projects.
Synonyms
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6.9
Making something feel very dull and boring
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7.9
Very boring and depressing so you lose interest and energy
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8.3
Making someone feel very tired and weak
Causes someone to be unable to think or feel clearly
Does not interest, excite, or make people feel energetic
Antonyms
How Boring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stultifying comes from the Latin root stultus meaning 'fool' and the ending -fy meaning 'make', so it literally means 'to make foolish'. That's why a stultifying job or talk makes people feel dull, bored, or like their ideas are useless.