stulted

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adjective

Deprived of strength and vigor.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of stult
adjectivestulted (comparative more stulted, superlative most stulted)

comparative more stulted · superlative most stulted

  1. Deprived of strength and vigor.

    This man has a stunted and stulted life.

    1975, Charles R. Wood, Evangelistic Sermon Outlines, →ISBN, page 11
    3 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 268

    The sky was clear. The breeze stalled, stulted.

    2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Latinstultus
  2. Englishstulted

From Latin stultus.

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