Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by hebetude, lethargy, or dullness.
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- adjective Displaying
mental lethargy ordullness .
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Examples
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One day you learn what ‘hebetudinous’ means, then you learn how to use Google.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Tip for Using Google Scholar to Find Court Opinions 2010
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One day you learn what ‘hebetudinous’ means, then you learn how to use Google.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Tip for Using Google Scholar to Find Court Opinions 2010
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We BLASTED our hebetudinous head of state over that.
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How hebetudinous, and logic-challenged are those who perniciously, intoxicate, themselves and their neighbors with such poisonous products with affects every single person who inhales them?
America And China; The Toxic Twins, One A Plutocracy, The Other a Toxic, Slave Labor Hypocrisy 2007
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The argument of records being broken because of steroid is ludicrous and an example of blear-witted, hebetudinous, thinking, and superstition, fed by bigotry to overcome education and science.
Is It Bush's Fault That Racists In Baseball Are Flooding Politics In America, Or Is It Visa Versa? 2007
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Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow raincoaster
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By some magic of duty, he had contrived to give his usually hebetudinous features an expression of enthusiasm.
Within the Law 1913
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By some magic of duty, he had contrived to give his usually hebetudinous features an expression of enthusiasm.
Within the Law Bayard Veiller 1906
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Strange to say, also, for one of that lithe race, his person was heavy and hebetudinous; the consequence, no doubt, of habitual intemperance.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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I once broke up with a girl whose bile was just too hebetudinous.
Retrosnark 2009
qms commented on the word hebetudinous
We've stuffed enough of food in us
To render us quite hebetudinous.
We had something to say
But it's slipping away.
The thread of this verse is eludin' us.
November 29, 2015