soul-destroying
soul-destroying adjective: synonym of soul-crushing.
Adjective
soul-destroying (comparative more soul-destroying, superlative most soul-destroying)
- Synonym of soul-crushing.
- War is a soul-destroying experience for soldiers: you're never the same easy-going person after you've killed.
- The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom.
- Synonyms:
- soul-crushing
soul-destroying meaning in Tamil and Kannada
soul-destroying in Tamil
- ஆன்மநல அழிவுக்குக் காரணமான
soul-destroying in Kannada
- ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸದ, ಬೇಸರ ತರಿಸುವ, ನಿರಾಸಕ್ತ, ಸತ್ವವಿಲ್ಲದ
Examples of soul-destroying in a sentence
- Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- The Harry Potter star, who has not acted in a film since 2018, says she found promotion duties ‘soul-destroying’ but is now ‘maybe the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been’2025 September 23, Catherine Shoard, “Emma Watson explains long break from acting: ‘I do not miss selling things’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of soul-destroying
Forms of soul-destroying
| comparative | more soul-destroying |
|---|---|
| superlative | most soul-destroying |
Questions about soul-destroying
- What does soul-destroying mean?
- Soul-destroying means synonym of soul-crushing.
- What is soul-destroying in Tamil?
- Soul-destroying in Tamil is ஆன்மநல அழிவுக்குக் காரணமான. See Soul-destroying meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use soul-destroying in a sentence?
- Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.
- What part of speech is soul-destroying?
- Soul-destroying is an adjective.
Words near soul-destroying in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: soul-destroying (page history and authors); soul-destroying (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); soul-destroying (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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