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mind-numbingly

mind-numbingly adverb: in a mind-numbing (boring) manner.

Adverb

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

  1. In a mind-numbing (boring) manner.
    • mind-numbingly tedious work
  2. In a manner that leaves one stunned and horrified.
    • a mind-numbingly stupid take
    • Democracy is in disrepair, big business alternatingly rents, seeks, or foists cultural rot onto the complacent public, and education is mindnumbingly awash in psychological fads.2001, Mike N. Castle, editor, School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 6

Forms of mind-numbingly

comparativemore mind-numbingly
superlativemost mind-numbingly
alternative formmindnumbingly

Origin of mind-numbingly

From mind-numbing + -ly.

Questions about mind-numbingly

What does mind-numbingly mean?
Mind-numbingly means in a mind-numbing (boring) manner.
What part of speech is mind-numbingly?
Mind-numbingly is an adverb.

Words near mind-numbingly in the dictionary

  1. mind-melds
  2. mind-monkey
  3. mind-muscle connection
  4. mind-muscle connections
  5. mind-numbing
  6. mind-numbingly
  7. mind-numbingness
  8. mind-read
  9. mind-reader
  10. mind-readers
  11. mind-reading

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