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Definition of stultify in English: stultifyverbstultified, stultifies, stultifying ˈstʌltɪfʌɪˈstəltəˌfaɪ [with object]1usually as adjective stultifyingCause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine. （尤指因单调或限制性的老一套而）使失去干劲；使失去创造性 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. 使显得愚蠢，使显得荒谬可笑 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.
OriginMid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus 'foolish'. Definition of stultify in US English: stultifyverbˈstəltəˌfaɪˈstəltəˌfī [with object]1usually as adjective stultifyingCause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine. （尤指因单调或限制性的老一套而）使失去干劲；使失去创造性 the mentally stultifying effects of a disadvantaged home 贫困家庭那种精神压抑的后果。 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. 使显得愚蠢，使显得荒谬可笑 Counsel is not expected to stultify himself in an attempt to advance his client's interests 律师不该为客户利益而使自己显得荒谬可笑。 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.
OriginMid 18th century: from late Latin stultificare, from Latin stultus ‘foolish’. |