| 词汇 | stultifying |
| 释义 | stultifyingstul·ti·fy·ing /ˈstʌltəfaɪ-ɪŋ/ adjectiveadj formal BORINGso boring that you feel as though you are losing your ability to think 使人厌倦的；使人呆滞[迟钝]的 a stultifying office environment 令人呆滞的办公环境 —stultify verb [transitiveT] Examples from the Corpus stultifying• a stultifying corporate environment• Private enterprise and initiative would replace the stultifying effect of joint responsibility and periodic redistribution of land.• For the courts to take upon themselves the task of making this determination is a stultifying, even a discrediting, exercise.• Together with its stultifying racial enmities, this seems to have brought it to a halt, and placed it beyond history.• A hierarchy is seen as stultifying, rigid and caste-like. (1700-1800) Late Latin stultificare “to make stupid”, from Latin stultus “stupid” |
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