stultifying Definition

stultify
verb stultifies, stultified, stultifying

1. To make someone or something appear absurd, foolish, contradictory, etc.
2. To cause something to be useless, worthless, futile, etc.

Thesaurus: prevent, frustrate, check, stop, repress, thwart, stifle, smother, negate, nullify, blunt; Antonym: encourage, boost.
3. To dull the mind of someone, eg with tedious tasks.
4. law.
To allege or prove someone or oneself to be insane and so unfit to plead or to be regarded as legally responsible, etc.

Derivative: stultification
noun

Derivative: stultifier
noun

Derivative: stultifying
adj

(of an activity or task) mind-numbing; tedious in the extreme
Thesaurus: numbing, stupefying, dulling; Antonym: electrifying.

Etymology: 18c: from Latin stultus foolish + facere to make.