mind-numbing

See also: mindnumbing

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

mind-numbing (comparative more mind-numbing, superlative most mind-numbing)

1. (idiomatic) Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.

   Synonym: brain-numbing

   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.

Derived terms

• mind-numbingly
• mind-numbingness

 

Translations

excessively boring

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讓人心煩意亂的／让人心烦意乱的 (ràng rén xīnfányìluàn de)

• Dutch: geestdodend (nl)
• Finnish: turruttava (fi)
• French: abrutissant (fr)
• German: stumpfsinnig (de)
• Polish: arcynudny (pl)
• Russian: отупля́ющий (ru) (otupljájuščij)
• Swedish: förslöande (sv)