Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of stult
comparative more stulted · superlative most stulted
- Deprived of strength and vigor.
This man has a stunted and stulted life.
1975, Charles R. Wood, Evangelistic Sermon Outlines, →ISBN, page 113 more examples
But Herrera, who so far had followed him pretty closely, maintains an even tenor, borrowing now from more varied sources wherewith to fill his bald and stulted decades.
1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Mexico. 1883-1888...toward the whole of Norwich Town, which in truth was crude and stulted to one of his high breed and spirit.
1916, Margaret Fuller, A New England Childhood, page 268The sky was clear. The breeze stalled, stulted.
2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, →ISBN
Origin
- Latinstultus
- Englishstulted
From Latin stultus.
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