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deadeningly

deadeningly adverb: in a deadening manner.

Adverb

deadeningly (comparative more deadeningly, superlative most deadeningly)

  1. In a deadening manner.
    • Although it was, on occasion, disturbing to see powerful and complicated emotions and behaviors distilled into deadeningly dull diagnostic phrases […]1997, Kay Redfield Jamison, An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness
    • […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself

Forms of deadeningly

comparativemore deadeningly
superlativemost deadeningly

Origin of deadeningly

From deadening + -ly.

Questions about deadeningly

What does deadeningly mean?
Deadeningly means in a deadening manner.
What part of speech is deadeningly?
Deadeningly is an adverb.

Words near deadeningly in the dictionary

  1. deadends
  2. deadened
  3. deadener
  4. deadeners
  5. deadening
  6. deadeningly
  7. deadenings
  8. deadenosylate
  9. deadenosylated
  10. deadenosylates
  11. deadenosylating

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