Deadening Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕdn-ĭng
Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. muting
  2. muffling
  3. stifling
  4. dampening
  5. dulling
  6. dimming
Antonyms:
  1. increasing
  2. animating
  3. building
  4. strengthening
  5. enlivening
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. numbing
  2. dulling
  3. weakening
  4. doping
  5. retarding
  6. desensitizing
  7. blunting
  8. devitalizing
  9. stunning
  10. stupefying
  11. incapacitating
  12. freezing
  13. girdling
  14. subduing
  15. paralyzing
  16. tiring
  17. exhausting
  18. injuring
  19. soothing
  20. benumbing
  21. repressing
  22. frustrating
  23. suppressing
  24. quieting
  25. stifling
  26. smothering
  27. petrifying
  28. depressing
  29. muffling
  30. moderating
  31. lessening
  32. dazing
  33. killing
  34. narcotizing
  35. gassing
  36. slowing
  37. diminishing
  38. impairing
Antonyms:
  1. enlivening
  2. invigorating
  3. revitalizing
  4. animating
The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stultification
  2. constipation
  3. impairment
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; - Edmund Burke; ; - Mark Twain
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. boring
  2. dull
  3. ho-hum
  4. irksome
  5. slow
  6. tedious
  7. tiresome
  8. wearisome

Words Related to Deadening

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Deadening Sentence Examples

  • Well trained as was the civil service of France, the effect of this supervision in deadening activity was sometimes more marked than in its effect in preventing abuse.

  • Fesal may well have watched with jealous anxiety the growing strength of his neighbour's state as compared with his own, where all progress was arrested by the deadening tyranny of religious fanaticism.

  • A system so inelastic, and so deadening to all initiative, could have but one result.

  • The female figure is largely made use of, and rich and harmonious colours are sought, the glitter of metal being invariably subdued by deadening its lustre, or by patinas and oxides.

  • Alphonso was now shaking himself loose from the deadening influence of the reactionary court, and was beginning to display a disconcerting interest in affairs, information about which he was apt to seek at first hand., The resignation of the see of Valencia by Archbishop Nozaleda was a symptom of the new spirit.

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