enervating
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That enervates.
Example Sentences
- "No enervating arts refined To slumber lull'd his heaven-born might; No weak indulgence warp'd thy mind, To cloud a hero's path of light."
- "I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch."
- "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."
Inflected Forms
more enervating (comparative)
most enervating (superlative)