deadeningly

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adverb

In a deadening manner.

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Meanings

adverbdeadeningly (comparative more deadeningly, superlative most deadeningly)

comparative more deadeningly · superlative most deadeningly

  1. In a deadening manner.

    […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

    2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself
    1 more example

    Although it was, on occasion, disturbing to see powerful and complicated emotions and behaviors distilled into deadeningly dull diagnostic phrases […]

    1997, Kay Redfield Jamison, An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness

Origin

From deadening + -ly.

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APA

deadeningly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deadeningly

MLA

“deadeningly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deadeningly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deadeningly,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deadeningly.

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