Meaning

2 senses
  1. Extremely disheartening: that causes erosion of moral fortitude or that eliminates hope or motivation.

    Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:disheartening

    This litany of travails is soul-crushing.

  2. Extremely boring.

    soul-crushing boredom

    I can't sit through another lecture from this professor — his delivery is soul-crushing.

Forms

more soul-crushing, most soul-crushing

Synonyms

8 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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