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nugifying

nugifying adjective: rendering trifling or futile; making silly.

Adjective

nugifying (comparative more nugifying, superlative most nugifying)

  1. Rendering trifling or futile; making silly.
    • Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]1840, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

Forms of nugifying

comparativemore nugifying
superlativemost nugifying

Origin of nugifying

From Latin nugae (“trifles”) + -fy + -ing.

Questions about nugifying

What does nugifying mean?
Nugifying means rendering trifling or futile; making silly.
What part of speech is nugifying?
Nugifying is an adjective.

Words near nugifying in the dictionary

  1. nuggety
  2. nuggie
  3. nuggies
  4. nuggs
  5. nuggy
  6. nugifying
  7. nugs
  8. nugu
  9. nugudom
  10. Nugumiut
  11. nugus

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