stultify
/ˈstʌltɪfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stunt, inhibit (progress, ideas, etc.) or make dull and uninteresting, especially through routine that is overly restrictive or limiting.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Bureaucracy and over-regulation have stultified the economy."
- "From the economic point of view, the concentration of future construction into a dozen or so standard classes should be for the good, provided it is not adhered to too rigidly, and allowed to stultify progress in design and further efforts to improve the efficiency of the steam locomotive, which still remains the simplest and most reliable of machines ever invented by man."
- "I for one find the weekly puzzle plenty big enough to satisfy, and, without a good theme, to stultify."
- "Robots excel at exactly the repetitive tasks that stultify the human mind and strain the human body."
- "His business plan was stultified by new technologies."
- "Here was a disaster—her ingenious scheme completely stultified."