Definition of stultify in English:

stultify

verbstultified, stultifies, stultifying ˈstʌltɪfʌɪˈstəltəˌfaɪ

[with object]

1usually as adjective stultifyingCause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
the stultifying conformity of provincial life
Example sentencesExamples
- But even more, Michael Bryson has written a necessary book, one that attempts to overthrow the rather stultifying critical orthodoxy that presently governs Milton studies.
- I normally don't weigh in on this endlessly stultifying topic of academic liberalism, but it's getting a bit more interesting now that professors are being physically threatened.
- There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified.
- The full time housewife's life was stultifying.
- Without the inclusion of this track, the disc feels nearly stultifying, but with it, altogether pleasant.
- There is no doubt that the exterior material is beautiful, but it is also a bit stultifying in its quantity.
- There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory.
- Their wish to expand the audience probably emanates from their belief that poetry should be enjoyed and practised by everyone; that poetry needs to be liberated from stultifying analysis.
- Where both forms of expression are used together, as in the present case, they may indeed tend to be mutually stultifying.
- But Mr. Jiao is not alone in expressing frustration that, even after a long-awaited transition to a new generation of leaders some 18 months ago, China's political scene remains stultifying.
- A better formula for stultifying research is beyond contemplation.
- Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying.
- But equally, immersion can be stultifying: shut yourself off from a range of experiences (artistic and lived), and your critical reading even of the things you're shut in with suffer.
- One lesson from the early 1970s is that trying to centralize or organize all the community energies into one big movement is stultifying for everyone concerned.
- For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying.
- They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring.
- Morality, one finds, isn't oppressive and stultifying; it's relaxing and liberating.
- But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought.
- But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate.
- This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying.
Synonyms
hamper, impede, obstruct, thwart, frustrate, foil, suppress, smother, repress
bore, make bored, dull, numb, benumb, stupefy, deaden
informal bore rigid, bore stupid, bore to death
rare hebetate
2Cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd.
Example sentencesExamples
- Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students.
- Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past.
- If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
- Bahamians (born with minds as fine as anyone else) are stultified intellectually, emotionally and culturally by the medieval religious environment that politicians have encouraged.
- Suppose further that other children who have a genetic disadvantage also have an environment that stultifies their musical talents.
- Too much local diversity provides too little nurturing; too much local homogeneity stultifies deviance and creativity.
- Like women elsewhere, African women are stultified by circumstances largely beyond their control.
- We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome.
- A genuinely democratic culture has therefore been stultified and the ruling elite itself largely lacks popular legitimacy.
- The government's withholding of information, for example about the arms deal and self-interested involvement in it, and the requirement of political correctness in public debate, however, stultify democracy.
- To ask these questions is to begin to question how the whole of society operates and how its division into classes narrows and stultifies the lives of nearly everyone, both men and women.
- There is nothing worse than being stultified by a script.

Derivatives

stultification

noun stʌltɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌstəltəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n

Government regimentation of the socio-economic order always leads to widespread chaos, stultification and despair.
Example sentencesExamples
- All the vast resources of corporate America are directed toward the political and ideological stultification of the broad masses.
- What Rowse saw in the Elizabethan age was energy and opportunity: what he saw in his own age was restriction and stultification.
- In Nietzschean line of argumentation, democracy is tantamount to indecision, moral justification (proof of weakness), and stultification of politics, or ‘the rule of the mob.’
- The result was an increasing stultification within the faith, and the gulf between Jewish Law and everyday reality widened.

stultifier

noun

The stultifiers are the people from Historic Preservation and the fire department, the museum types and the Arts Council.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a field where most of the books are minefields, road maps to oblivion, mind stultifiers, or very limited in their scope.
- Busoni claimed to despise ‘tradition’ - or at least any semblance of slavish adherence thereto - as a stultifier, yet he was himself unquestionably a staunch upholder and developer of ‘traditions’.

stultifyingly

adverb

This recklessness led to much soul-searching and is no doubt the reason why this election night's TV coverage was stultifyingly dull and cautious.
Example sentencesExamples
- By far the most amazing thing about Halo is how mind-bendingly, stultifyingly, dull and repetitious it is.
- After a first 30 minutes of sometimes stultifyingly boring play, it was Bergamasco who lit up the match with a glorious try.
- But this staggering turnaround in the numbers has lost sight of the fact that last year's performance was stultifyingly bad - the worst in its 200-year history.
- His self-loathing prevents him from even opening the door for his stultifyingly patient longtime girlfriend Penny.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus 'foolish'.

Definition of stultify in US English:

stultify

verbˈstəltəˌfaɪˈstəltəˌfī

[with object]

1usually as adjective stultifyingCause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
the mentally stultifying effects of a disadvantaged home
Example sentencesExamples
- Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying.
- Morality, one finds, isn't oppressive and stultifying; it's relaxing and liberating.
- They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring.
- The full time housewife's life was stultifying.
- One lesson from the early 1970s is that trying to centralize or organize all the community energies into one big movement is stultifying for everyone concerned.
- There is no doubt that the exterior material is beautiful, but it is also a bit stultifying in its quantity.
- There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory.
- But even more, Michael Bryson has written a necessary book, one that attempts to overthrow the rather stultifying critical orthodoxy that presently governs Milton studies.
- For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying.
- This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying.
- Where both forms of expression are used together, as in the present case, they may indeed tend to be mutually stultifying.
- But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought.
- I normally don't weigh in on this endlessly stultifying topic of academic liberalism, but it's getting a bit more interesting now that professors are being physically threatened.
- But equally, immersion can be stultifying: shut yourself off from a range of experiences (artistic and lived), and your critical reading even of the things you're shut in with suffer.
- A better formula for stultifying research is beyond contemplation.
- But Mr. Jiao is not alone in expressing frustration that, even after a long-awaited transition to a new generation of leaders some 18 months ago, China's political scene remains stultifying.
- But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate.
- There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified.
- Their wish to expand the audience probably emanates from their belief that poetry should be enjoyed and practised by everyone; that poetry needs to be liberated from stultifying analysis.
- Without the inclusion of this track, the disc feels nearly stultifying, but with it, altogether pleasant.
Synonyms
hamper, impede, obstruct, thwart, frustrate, foil, suppress, smother, repress
bore, make bored, dull, numb, benumb, stupefy, deaden
2Cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd.
Counsel is not expected to stultify himself in an attempt to advance his client's interests
Example sentencesExamples
- We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome.
- The government's withholding of information, for example about the arms deal and self-interested involvement in it, and the requirement of political correctness in public debate, however, stultify democracy.
- A genuinely democratic culture has therefore been stultified and the ruling elite itself largely lacks popular legitimacy.
- If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
- Bahamians (born with minds as fine as anyone else) are stultified intellectually, emotionally and culturally by the medieval religious environment that politicians have encouraged.
- To ask these questions is to begin to question how the whole of society operates and how its division into classes narrows and stultifies the lives of nearly everyone, both men and women.
- Like women elsewhere, African women are stultified by circumstances largely beyond their control.
- Too much local diversity provides too little nurturing; too much local homogeneity stultifies deviance and creativity.
- There is nothing worse than being stultified by a script.
- Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past.
- Suppose further that other children who have a genetic disadvantage also have an environment that stultifies their musical talents.
- Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus ‘foolish’.

单词	stultify
释义	Definition of stultify in English: stultify verbstultified, stultifies, stultifying ˈstʌltɪfʌɪˈstəltəˌfaɪ [with object] 1usually as adjective stultifyingCause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine. the stultifying conformity of provincial life Example sentencesExamples But even more, Michael Bryson has written a necessary book, one that attempts to overthrow the rather stultifying critical orthodoxy that presently governs Milton studies. I normally don't weigh in on this endlessly stultifying topic of academic liberalism, but it's getting a bit more interesting now that professors are being physically threatened. There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified. The full time housewife's life was stultifying. Without the inclusion of this track, the disc feels nearly stultifying, but with it, altogether pleasant. There is no doubt that the exterior material is beautiful, but it is also a bit stultifying in its quantity. There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory. Their wish to expand the audience probably emanates from their belief that poetry should be enjoyed and practised by everyone; that poetry needs to be liberated from stultifying analysis. Where both forms of expression are used together, as in the present case, they may indeed tend to be mutually stultifying. But Mr. Jiao is not alone in expressing frustration that, even after a long-awaited transition to a new generation of leaders some 18 months ago, China's political scene remains stultifying. A better formula for stultifying research is beyond contemplation. Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying. But equally, immersion can be stultifying: shut yourself off from a range of experiences (artistic and lived), and your critical reading even of the things you're shut in with suffer. One lesson from the early 1970s is that trying to centralize or organize all the community energies into one big movement is stultifying for everyone concerned. For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying. They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring. Morality, one finds, isn't oppressive and stultifying; it's relaxing and liberating. But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought. But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate. This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying. Synonyms hamper, impede, obstruct, thwart, frustrate, foil, suppress, smother, repress bore, make bored, dull, numb, benumb, stupefy, deaden informal bore rigid, bore stupid, bore to death rare hebetate 2Cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd. Example sentencesExamples Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students. Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past. If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries. Bahamians (born with minds as fine as anyone else) are stultified intellectually, emotionally and culturally by the medieval religious environment that politicians have encouraged. Suppose further that other children who have a genetic disadvantage also have an environment that stultifies their musical talents. Too much local diversity provides too little nurturing; too much local homogeneity stultifies deviance and creativity. Like women elsewhere, African women are stultified by circumstances largely beyond their control. We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome. A genuinely democratic culture has therefore been stultified and the ruling elite itself largely lacks popular legitimacy. The government's withholding of information, for example about the arms deal and self-interested involvement in it, and the requirement of political correctness in public debate, however, stultify democracy. To ask these questions is to begin to question how the whole of society operates and how its division into classes narrows and stultifies the lives of nearly everyone, both men and women. There is nothing worse than being stultified by a script. Derivatives stultification noun stʌltɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌstəltəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n Government regimentation of the socio-economic order always leads to widespread chaos, stultification and despair. Example sentencesExamples All the vast resources of corporate America are directed toward the political and ideological stultification of the broad masses. What Rowse saw in the Elizabethan age was energy and opportunity: what he saw in his own age was restriction and stultification. In Nietzschean line of argumentation, democracy is tantamount to indecision, moral justification (proof of weakness), and stultification of politics, or ‘the rule of the mob.’ The result was an increasing stultification within the faith, and the gulf between Jewish Law and everyday reality widened. stultifier noun The stultifiers are the people from Historic Preservation and the fire department, the museum types and the Arts Council. Example sentencesExamples It is a field where most of the books are minefields, road maps to oblivion, mind stultifiers, or very limited in their scope. Busoni claimed to despise ‘tradition’ - or at least any semblance of slavish adherence thereto - as a stultifier, yet he was himself unquestionably a staunch upholder and developer of ‘traditions’. stultifyingly adverb This recklessness led to much soul-searching and is no doubt the reason why this election night's TV coverage was stultifyingly dull and cautious. Example sentencesExamples By far the most amazing thing about Halo is how mind-bendingly, stultifyingly, dull and repetitious it is. After a first 30 minutes of sometimes stultifyingly boring play, it was Bergamasco who lit up the match with a glorious try. But this staggering turnaround in the numbers has lost sight of the fact that last year's performance was stultifyingly bad - the worst in its 200-year history. His self-loathing prevents him from even opening the door for his stultifyingly patient longtime girlfriend Penny. Origin Mid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus 'foolish'. Definition of stultify in US English: stultify verbˈstəltəˌfaɪˈstəltəˌfī [with object] 1usually as adjective stultifyingCause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine. the mentally stultifying effects of a disadvantaged home Example sentencesExamples Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying. Morality, one finds, isn't oppressive and stultifying; it's relaxing and liberating. They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring. The full time housewife's life was stultifying. One lesson from the early 1970s is that trying to centralize or organize all the community energies into one big movement is stultifying for everyone concerned. There is no doubt that the exterior material is beautiful, but it is also a bit stultifying in its quantity. There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory. But even more, Michael Bryson has written a necessary book, one that attempts to overthrow the rather stultifying critical orthodoxy that presently governs Milton studies. For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying. This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying. Where both forms of expression are used together, as in the present case, they may indeed tend to be mutually stultifying. But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought. I normally don't weigh in on this endlessly stultifying topic of academic liberalism, but it's getting a bit more interesting now that professors are being physically threatened. But equally, immersion can be stultifying: shut yourself off from a range of experiences (artistic and lived), and your critical reading even of the things you're shut in with suffer. A better formula for stultifying research is beyond contemplation. But Mr. Jiao is not alone in expressing frustration that, even after a long-awaited transition to a new generation of leaders some 18 months ago, China's political scene remains stultifying. But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate. There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified. Their wish to expand the audience probably emanates from their belief that poetry should be enjoyed and practised by everyone; that poetry needs to be liberated from stultifying analysis. Without the inclusion of this track, the disc feels nearly stultifying, but with it, altogether pleasant. Synonyms hamper, impede, obstruct, thwart, frustrate, foil, suppress, smother, repress bore, make bored, dull, numb, benumb, stupefy, deaden 2Cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd. Counsel is not expected to stultify himself in an attempt to advance his client's interests Example sentencesExamples We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome. The government's withholding of information, for example about the arms deal and self-interested involvement in it, and the requirement of political correctness in public debate, however, stultify democracy. A genuinely democratic culture has therefore been stultified and the ruling elite itself largely lacks popular legitimacy. If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries. Bahamians (born with minds as fine as anyone else) are stultified intellectually, emotionally and culturally by the medieval religious environment that politicians have encouraged. To ask these questions is to begin to question how the whole of society operates and how its division into classes narrows and stultifies the lives of nearly everyone, both men and women. Like women elsewhere, African women are stultified by circumstances largely beyond their control. Too much local diversity provides too little nurturing; too much local homogeneity stultifies deviance and creativity. There is nothing worse than being stultified by a script. Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past. Suppose further that other children who have a genetic disadvantage also have an environment that stultifies their musical talents. Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students. Origin Mid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus ‘foolish’.
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