Definition for Deadening:

• So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks.

Synonyms for Deadening:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • constipation,
  • impairment,
  • stultification.
  •deadening (noun)
  • boring,
  • constipation,
  • dull,
  • ho-hum,
  • impairment,
  • slow,
  • stultification,
  • tedious,
  • tiresome,
  • uninteresting,
  • wearisome,
  • Irksome.

• v.

  •blunting (verb)
  • diminishing,
  • softening,
  • Blunting.
  •disabling (verb)
  • crippling,
  • disabling,
  • disarming,
  • enfeebling,
  • hindering,
  • incapacitating,
  • invalidating,
  • stunning,
  • stupefying,
  • tampering,
  • weakening,
  • Abrogating,
  • Benumbing,
  • Botching,
  • Dulling,
  • Hampering,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Handicapping,
  • Hobbling,
  • Impairing,
  • Laming,
  • Neutralizing,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Sapping,
  • Scotching,
  • Vitiating,
  • Cramping,
  • Prostrating,
  • anesthetizing,
  • screwing up,
  • undermining.
  •numbing (verb)
  • desensitizing,
  • drugging,
  • narcotizing,
  • numbing,
  • Dazing.
  •quieting (verb)
  • Muffling,
  • Quieting,
  • Silencing,
  • Stilling,
  • turning down.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • narcotic.
  •irksome
  • Irksome.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abatement,
  • abating,
  • absorption,
  • abuse,
  • adapt,
  • allay,
  • alleviate,
  • alleviation,
  • alleviative,
  • alter,
  • amend,
  • analgesia,
  • analgesic,
  • anesthesia,
  • anesthetic,
  • anodyne,
  • appease,
  • appeasement,
  • appeasing,
  • assuagement,
  • assuasive,
  • attenuation,
  • attrition,
  • balmy,
  • balsamic,
  • beat out,
  • becalm,
  • befooling,
  • bleak,
  • blemish,
  • boring,
  • bruise,
  • calm down,
  • calming,
  • carve,
  • castrate,
  • cathartic,
  • chastening,
  • cheerless,
  • chilling,
  • choking,
  • cleansing,
  • cold,
  • constipation,
  • convert,
  • corrosion,
  • cushioning,
  • damage,
  • dampening,
  • deaden,
  • debasement,
  • debilitation,
  • decay,
  • decline,
  • degeneracy,
  • degradation,
  • demulcent,
  • dense,
  • depressing,
  • deterioration,
  • detriment,
  • devitalization,
  • dilution,
  • dim,
  • diminution,
  • disability,
  • disablement,
  • disadvantage,
  • discouraging,
  • disheartening,
  • dismal,
  • dispiriting,
  • disservice,
  • drawback,
  • dull,
  • dumb,
  • ease,
  • easement,
  • easing,
  • emollient,
  • enervation,
  • enfeeblement,
  • evisceration,
  • exhaustion,
  • extenuation,
  • extinguishing,
  • falling off,
  • fatigue,
  • gloomy,
  • grey,
  • handicap,
  • harm,
  • ho-hum,
  • hold back,
  • hush up,
  • impairment,
  • inanition,
  • incise,
  • injury,
  • leaden,
  • leniency,
  • lenitive,
  • lessening,
  • letdown,
  • letup,
  • lightening,
  • loosening,
  • loss,
  • lulling,
  • lysis,
  • mitigate,
  • mitigation,
  • mitigative,
  • modulation,
  • moistening,
  • mollification,
  • mollify,
  • move,
  • muffled,
  • muted,
  • narcotic,
  • obtuse,
  • pacification,
  • pacify,
  • palliate,
  • palliation,
  • palliative,
  • placate,
  • propitiate,
  • purgative,
  • quell,
  • quelling,
  • quench,
  • quenching,
  • quieten,
  • quietening,
  • reducing,
  • reduction,
  • relaxation,
  • relaxing,
  • relief,
  • relieve,
  • remedial,
  • remedy,
  • remission,
  • salving,
  • slackening,
  • slow,
  • sluggish,
  • soften,
  • soothe,
  • soothing,
  • soporific,
  • stifle,
  • stifling,
  • stultification,
  • suffocate,
  • suppress,
  • tedious,
  • tempering,
  • thinning,
  • thudding,
  • tiresome,
  • transform,
  • turn,
  • uninteresting,
  • vary,
  • verbose,
  • washing,
  • wearisome,
  • windy,
  • wordy,
  • wound,
  • Allaying,
  • Allayment,
  • Alleviating,
  • Assuaging,
  • Blurring,
  • Checking,
  • Damping,
  • Deadener,
  • Demulsion,
  • Diminishment,
  • Dulcification,
  • Effemination,
  • Girdling,
  • Hushing,
  • Irksome,
  • Languishment,
  • Mitigating,
  • Muting,
  • Palliating,
  • Relieving,
  • Tranquilization,
  • Smoothing,
  • Soother,
  • Subduement,
  • Subduing,
  • somnifacient,
  • killing,
  • smooth down,
  • use sparingly,
  • pain-killing,
  • sound insulation,
  • amortizing.

Antonyms for Deadening:

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    amplify, intensify, sensitize.

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    interesting.