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" Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two."
Mark Boal

Meaning of "mind-numbing" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MIND-NUMBING

mind-numbing


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIND-NUMBING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mind-Numbing is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MIND-NUMBING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mind-numbing in the English dictionary

The definition of mind-numbing in the dictionary is extremely boring and uninspiring.



WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIND-NUMBING

mind reader · mind reading · mind you · mind-altering · mind-bender · mind-bending · mind-blowing · mind-body problem · mind-boggling · mind-expanding · mind-numbingly · mind-reader · mind-reading · mind-set · mind-your-own-business · mind´s eye · Mindanao · mindblower · minded · mindedness

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIND-NUMBING

aid climbing · artificial climbing · beachcombing · bing · bombing · car bombing · carpet bombing · climbing · free climbing · google-bombing · hill climbing · ice climbing · lambing · plumbing · precision bombing · rock climbing · saturation bombing · social climbing · social-climbing · suicide bombing · terrorist bombing

Synonyms and antonyms of mind-numbing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mind-numbing» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MIND-NUMBING

Find out the translation of mind-numbing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mind-numbing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mind-numbing» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

头脑麻木
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

soporífera
570 millions of speakers
en

English

mind-numbing
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दिमाग सुन्न
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العقل الذهول
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Дурманящий
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

entorpecente
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মন-numbing
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

abrutissante
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mind-numbing
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

geisttötende
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

退屈でつまらない
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

마음 마비
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pikiran-numbing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tâm-tê
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மனம் மரக்க
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मन-सुन्न करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

zihin-uyuşturucu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

noiose
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

paraliżujący umysł
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дурманний
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

minte-numbing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυαλό-
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mind- numbing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mind-bedövande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mind- lammende
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mind-numbing

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4 QUOTES WITH «MIND-NUMBING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mind-numbing.
1
Mark Boal
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
2
Bryan Greenberg
I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
3
Robert Sean Leonard
I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.
4
Mark de Mori
The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIND-NUMBING»

Discover the use of mind-numbing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mind-numbing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Mind Numbing Bullet
Detective Klay Mitchell takes a case to find his old partner's killer.
Michael Richardson, 2012
2
Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can ...
Argues that the decline in reading by children in the United States is furthered by schools by focusing on test-taking and focusing solely on academic texts with guidance for educators on how to conteract this trend.
Kelly Gallagher, 2009
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
nAm.in/ adjective extremely boring: a mind-numbing task • mind-numbingly /' maind.nAm.in.li/ adverb mind-numbingly boring 'mind .reader noun [C] mainly humorous a person who knows another person's thoughts without being told them: ...
‎2008
4
Picture Puzzles For Dummies
Mind-Numbing. Activities. To keep your brain in top-notch shape, skip or at least limit the habits that tend to make you veg out. Just as keeping your attention engaged in an activity or different puzzle can boost your brain power, vegging out  ...
Elizabeth J. Cardenas-Nelson, Jennifer Connolly, 2009
5
Self, Value, and Narrative: A Kierkegaardian Approach
Why should I go through the dreary, mind—numbing torture of public school, get some dreary, mind-numbing job, get married and have children? So my children can go through the dreary, mind—numbing torture of public school, get dreary, ...
Anthony Rudd, 2012
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Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian ...
Originally, we questioned whether it was perhaps a little ambitious to ask students to use a relatively new medium to summarize an article that focuses on the mind-numbing effects of media in general, particularly in its coverage of the terrorist ...
Raymond George Siemens, David Moorman, 2006
7
Talk Less, Say More: Three Habits to Influence Others and ...
Smart stories have a long shelf life—far longer than mind-numbing facts. They break through workplace communiclutter and stick like glue. Like a good movie, they help us to absorb, retain, and repeat information and ideas. I can read your ...
Connie Dieken, 2009
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Unspoken Messages: Spiritual Lessons I Learned from Horses ...
Chapter. One. Mind-Numbing. News. I. have no doubt you have wondered what could have happened in my life to change the black-and-white, right-or-wrong, hardheaded, curmudgeonly person you knew and tolerated into the person I am  ...
Richard D. Rowland, 2013
9
In the Beginning was the Word
IN. THE. BEGINNING. WAS. THE. WORD. " . . Jenny. Holzer. has. made. no. concessions. to. mind-numbing. market. issues. Richard. Phillips. is. a. Frankensteinian. hybrid. m a searing Hibachi grill. THE MPRHESE STEHKHOIISE coast to ...
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The Part-Time Trader: Trading Stock as a Part-Time Venture, ...
Mind-Numbing. Trading. I've always been a firm believer that trading should be boring. Once it starts to get that heart-pounding feeling, and edge-of-your-seat thrilling, you have already lost.The prospect of trading successfully when you have ...
Ryan Mallory, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIND-NUMBING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mind-numbing is used in the context of the following news items.
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A minor league baseball team is changing its name to honor taco …
Its veracity may be suspect, but this 2008 YouTube classic has more than 12.7 million views, despite a mind-numbing soundtrack. «Mashable, Jul 15»
2
Spork's Burgers Come Up Short (Review)
... families exit and Spork caters to another set of kids — those looking to blow off some steam after classes or a long day at a mind-numbing job ... «Dallas Observer, Jul 15»
3
People, Not Technology, Advance Change
Instead, we got the vast wasteland of mind-numbing network programming. Inexpensive digital cameras can show us the world — or become ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
4
New Horizons: NASA takes a trip to Pluto
The undertaking is prodigious…mammoth…mind-numbing. The voyage will last for 9 and ½ years. I imagine my children on board…”are we ... «Naples Herald, Jul 15»
5
How and why to kill the deal
The devil in Obama's deal with Iran is not in the mind-numbing details, but in the big picture. The deal guarantees Iran will get the bomb. It gives ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
6
What if Football Were More Like... Football? (2015 edition)
If you have been really watching closely the last couple of years, though, you'll notice that they've had some astonishing and mind-numbing ... «Dawg Sports, Jul 15»
7
ACC Football Media Guide Contains Vulgar Hidden Message (Photo)
It's more than likely this poor, overworked soul was venting his or her frustration over having to produce 100-plus pages of mind-numbing stats. «NESN.com, Jul 15»
8
How Hollywood Preys on Our Deepest Fears
When trapped in inefficient, mind-numbing bureaucracies, who wouldn't jump at the first opportunity to escape? This is especially the case ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
A silk purse for pensioners
But the way that the government has chosen to go about it adds mind-numbing complexity to the system and – even more importantly – risks a ... «FT Adviser, Jul 15»
10
I Hate My New "Dream Job," What Should I Do?
What do you do when your dream job turns out to be a mind-numbing nightmare? By Lolly Daskal. There are a lot of unknowns going into a ... «Fast Company, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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