stultify

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
He insisted that the LHC was vital "if the human race is not to stultify, and eventually die out."

View all »
Definitions (11)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
  2. transitive verb To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous.
  3. transitive verb Law To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (4)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

stultify hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 156 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Late Latin stultificāre, to make foolish : Latin stultus, foolish; see stel- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficāre, -fy.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Late Latin stultificare, turn into foolishness, from Latin stultus, foolish, silly, + facere, make.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈstəltɪfai/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

astrophysics · ascites · caliente · relative · Trouvez

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket