What does stultifying mean?
Stultifying means present participle and gerund of stultify.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of stultify.
Was it just me or did you find everyone in high school stultifying?
Indeed, the government’s stultifying response betrays an attitude reminiscent of the old mission vicar: only we know what’s really good for them (see Scullion above).
The Judge was from an era when a person could get away with being larger than life — unlike the present day, when so much of our stultifying public discourse has come to be about joining in unearned moral superiority to look down our noses.
Use stultifying when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stultifying means present participle and gerund of stultify.
Common synonyms include useless, ineffective.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Was it just me or did you find everyone in high school stultifying?
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