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Definition: STULTIFYING |
STULTIFYINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Stultify |
Date "STULTIFYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Crosswords: STULTIFYING |
| Etymologies containing "STULTIFYING": stultify. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | India | Other factors that mitigate an otherwise "business-friendly" environment include India's stultifying and still largely unreformed bureaucracy, and various forms of social tensions (some manifested violently) in a huge and extremely diverse population, much of which suffers extreme poverty and the burdens of underdevelopment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "STULTIFYING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 61.90% of the time. "STULTIFYING" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 61.9% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 28.57% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STULTIFYING": self-stultifying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STULTIFYING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 显得'谬 (Stultified, stultify). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | veralbernd, blamierend (disgracing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ultifyingstay zaglupljujući. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STULTIFYING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: slultifying, stulifying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STULTIFYING" (pronounced stu"ltufī'ing) |
| 6 | -t u f ī' i ng | certifying, fortifying, gratifying, identifying, justifying, mystifying, notifying, quantifying, ratifying, rectifying, testifying. |
| 5 | -u f ī' i ng | amplifying, clarifying, classifying, codifying, disqualifying, diversifying, edifying, electrifying, exemplifying, falsifying, gentrifying, glorifying, horrifying, intensifying, magnifying, modifying, mummifying, nullifying, oversimplifying, purifying, qualifying, reclassifying, signifying, simplifying, solidifying, specifying, terrifying, unifying, verifying. |
| 4 | -f ī' i ng | satisfying, unsatisfying. |
| 3 | -ī' i ng | multiplying, occupying, outlying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: fittingly. | |
-3 letters: fittings, flitting, flutings, flytings, futility, linguist, slitting, stifling, stilting, stingily, stultify. | |
-4 letters: filings, fisting, fitting, fliting, fluting, flutist, flyings, flyting, fustily, gustily, gutsily, ingulfs, intuits, lifting, lignify, listing, lungyis, lusting, lutings, niftily, nuttily, sifting, signify, silting, sitting, styling, suiting, tilings, tilting, tinfuls, titling, tuftily, tufting, unfitly, utility. | |
-5 letters: filing, flings, flints, flinty. | |
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