Stultify

Definition: Stultify

Stultify

Verb

1. Show to be irresponsible; demonstrate someone's incompetence.

2. Cause to appear foolish.

3. Prove someone to be of unsound mind.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stultify" was first used: 1766. (references)

Note: Stultify \Stul"ti*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Stultified; present participle verb or noun Stultifying.]. (references)

Counteraction

Verb: counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand; (resist); hinder; repress; (restrain); react; (recoil).

Imbecility Folly

Trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble; (madness); play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around; take leave of one's senses (insanity); not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense.

Unskillfulness

Stultify oneself, make a fool of oneself, commit oneself; act foolishly; play the fool; put oneself out of court; lose control, lose control of oneself, lose one's head, lose one's cunning.

Crosswords: Stultify

Expressions using "stultify": stultify oneself ♦ stultify the mind. Additional references.

Albanian

trullos (befuddle, bewilder, daze, freak, intoxicate, overwhelm, stun, stupefy), budallallos, asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, destroy, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fast, finish, finish off, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, slate, smite, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake, uproot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سفه, ‏خنق (asphyxiate, choke, flummox, garrote, neck, overlay, overpower, sizzle, stifle, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling, worry), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏إتفه, ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свеждам до нула, разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), окарикатурявам (caricature, guy, travesty), омаловажавам (belittle, decry, denigrate, discount, disparage, enfeeble, extenuate, make little of, minify, minimize, palliate, play down, talk down, understate, whittle away), правя да затъпее, доказвам невменяемостта на. (various references)

Chinese 

显得�'谬 (Stultified, Stultifying). (various references)

Czech

zesmìšnit (ridicule), uèinit absurdním, ohlupovat (besot). (various references)

Farsi 

خنثی کردن (Annul, Counteract, Counterbalance, Discomfit, Negate, Negation, Neuter, Neutralize, Offset, Thwart, Undo), خرف کردن (Deaden, Stupefy), احمق کردن (Sot). (various references)

French

rendre vain, enlever toute valeur � , déshumaniser, abrutir (stupefy). (various references)

German

verkümmern (atrophy, die, go to waste, molder, rust, waste, waste away, wither, wither away), verdummen (addle, dull smb.'s mind, stagnate), veralbern (make fun of, to stultify), lähmen (cripple, hamstring, hamstringed, hamstrung, lame, paralyse, paralyze, spoil, to lame, to paralyse, to paralyze), blamieren (abash, blame, disgrace, put to shame, to blame, to stultify). (various references)

Greek 

ρεζιλεύω (humiliate, make a fool of). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעשות למ�'וחך, לסכל (baffle, balk, baulk, circumvent, foil, frustrate, make foolish, thwart). (various references)

Hungarian

gyengít (emasculate, labefy, to deaden, to degrade, to extenuate, to slack, to slacken, to stultify, to weaken, weaken). (various references)

Italian

neutralizzare (absorb, cancel, counter, counteract, neutralise, neutralize), invalidare (invalidate). (various references)

Manx

jannoo ommidan jeh, faagail gyn vree, cur er neunhee (nullify). (various references)

Pig Latin

ultifystay.(various references)

Portuguese

tornar ridículo, tirar todo o valor a, reduzir ao absurdo, neutralizar (counteract, defuse, destroy, frustrate, negative, neutralize, obviate), invalidar (annul, break, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, quash, vitiate, whittle down). (various references)

Romanian

ridiculiza (banter, burlesque, guy, laugh, mock, ridicule, roast), prosti (bamboozle, besot, chaff, chouse, dull, dupe, fool, make a fool of, stupefy), minimaliza (lessen, minimize, understate), lua în râs (ballyrag, gibe, mock, scoff), imbeciliza (brutify, stupefy). (various references)

Russian 

сковывать;выставлять на посмешище, сводить на нет (bring to nought, negative, negatived, whittle away, whittle down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osakatiti (lame, maim, mutilate), napraviti smešnim. (various references)

Spanish

poner en ridículo (make a fool of, ridicule), hacer ridículo, hacer inútil. (various references)

Swedish

förslöa (deaden, dull), förklara otillräknelig. (various references)

Turkish

rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, wreck), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lessen, lower, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, take smb. down a peg), iptal etmek (abolish, abort, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, blank out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare off, disaffirm, disallow, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, setaside, suspend, vacate, void, wash out, write off), etkisini azaltmak (cushion, dilute, make nonsense of, spend, vitiate), aptallaştırmak (hebetate, render stupid, stultify the mind), aptal durumuna düşürmek (score off, score smb. off), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, controvert, contuse, corrode, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot). (various references)

Ukrainian

виставляти у смішному вигляді, зводити нанівець (negative, neutralize). (various references)

stultus. (various references)

stultificare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stultify": stultifying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stultify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stoltify, stulify, stullify, stulltify, stuptify, stutify. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: flutist, fustily, tuftily.

-2 letters: fluyts, lutist, slutty.

-3 letters: fitly, flits, fluty, fluyt, fusil, fusty, lifts, lusty, silty, stilt, styli, tilts, tufts, tufty.

-4 letters: fils, fist, fits, flit, flus, lift, list, lits, litu, lust, sift, silt, slit, suit, syli, tils, tilt, tuft, tuis, tuts.

-5 letters: fil, fit, flu, fly, ifs, its, lis, lit, sit, sly, sty.

+2 letters: tristfully.

+3 letters: stultifying.

+4 letters: factitiously, fictitiously, fortuitously.

+5 letters: distastefully, distrustfully, flirtatiously, frustratingly, mistrustfully.