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mind-numbing

adj

Etymology

From mind + numbing. Compare Old English ġemynd-benimming (“lethargy”, noun, literally “numbing of the mind, mind-numbing”).

  1. derived from ġemynd-benimming — “lethargy”

Definitions

  1. Excessively boring, tedious, or dull

    Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.

    • After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else.
    • The story described the main character's wristwatch in mind-numbing detail.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mind-numbing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA