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Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Examples
- After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else.
- The story described the main character's wristwatch in mind-numbing detail.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brain-numbing
Antonyms: none provided
From mind + numbing. Compare Old English ġemynd-benimming (“lethargy”, noun, literally “numbing of the mind, mind-numbing”).
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
讓人心煩意亂的 /让人心烦意乱的
(ràng rén xīnfányìluàn de)
— excessively boring
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Dutch:
geestdodend
— excessively boring
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Finnish:
turruttava
— excessively boring
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French:
abrutissant
— excessively boring
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German:
stumpfsinnig
— excessively boring
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Polish:
arcynudny
— excessively boring
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Russian:
отупля́ющий
(otupljájuščij)
— excessively boring
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Spanish:
demasiadamente aburrido / aburridor
— excessively boring
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Swedish:
förslöande
— excessively boring
