Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

death by powerpoint

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: death by pow-er-point
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.

Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Near-synonym: PowerPointlessness"
"2000, David Greenberg, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint, 45 Proven Strategies to Breathe Life Into Dull Presentations, Goldleaf Publications, →ISBN, illustrated."
"In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint. Nothing has changed but the technology."
"We’ve all endured them ... PowerPoint presentations that drone on forever. I call this “Death by PowerPoint.” One of my near-death-by-PowerPoint experiences occurred in Newfoundland, Canada."
"And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another."
"Where a 10-page presentation with one or two charts would have been acceptable before, now we all suffer from death by PowerPoint."

Usage

Inflected Forms

deaths by PowerPoint (plural)

Phrases

PowerPoint ranger

Frequently Paired Words

PowerPoint ranger

Synonyms

PowerPointlessness

Questions

What does death by powerpoint mean?: The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.

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