mind-numbing

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mind-numbing

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

adjective more mind-numbing · most mind-numbing · mindnumbing

  1. idiomatic 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.

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