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deadening
noun
(dead-en-ing)
the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
Synonyms:
constipation
,
impairment
,
stultification
,
deadening
adjective
(dead-en-ing)
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Synonyms:
boring
,
dull
, ho-hum,
irksome
,
slow
,
tedious
,
tiresome
,
wearisome
,
Examples:
The deadening effect of some routine tasks.
Words Related to
deadening
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stultification
,
dull
,
irksome
,
wearisome
,
tiresome
,
boring
,
tedious
,
uninteresting
,
slow
,
impairment
,
ho-hum
,
stultifying
,
numbing
,
dulling
,
banality
,
mundanity
,
homogenizing
,
impersonality
,
ephemerality
,
entropic
,
enervating
,
soulless
,
dankness
,
purposelessness
,
joyless
,
ossifying
,
onanistic
,
chthonic
,
somnambulistic
,
transfiguring
,
soporific
,
befogged
,
indirectness
,
deadness
,
purgatorial
,
leaden
,
unrelieved
,
aural
,
dreary
,
attitudinizing
,
tedium
,
inexorability
,
deathlike
,
ponderousness
,
reified
,
procrustean
,
superfluities
,
narcosis
,
unpoetic
,
paralyzing
,
baleful
,
foetid
,
tawdriness
,
effaces
,
opiated
,
everydayness
,
insubstantiality
,
unendurable
,
easeful
,
plaintiveness
,
ennui
,
jarring
,
dailiness
,
wittedness
,
constricting
,
wearies
,
sameness
,
tenebrous
,
lifelessness
,
pernicious
,
reification
,
scratchiness
,
suffuse
,
metaphorical
,
depressing
,
thrums
,
flaccid
,
shuddering
,
inducing
,
clangor
,
corrosive
,
enfeebling
,
curdling
,
inconsequentiality
,
catharses
,
vivifying
,
pervades
,
overfamiliar
,
formless
,
oneiric
,
sapping
,
untempered
,
monotonous
,
unnamable
,
depthless
,
inescapable
,
muffles
,
aestheticism
,
meaninglessness
,
conventionality
,
deadening
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