Usually means: Sapping energy; causing mental fatigue.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. enervating: Merriam-Webster
  2. enervating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enervating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. enervating: Vocabulary.com
  5. enervating: Wordnik
  6. enervating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. enervating: Wiktionary
  8. Enervating, enervating: Dictionary.com
  9. enervating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Enervating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. enervating: Rhymezone
  12. Enervating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. enervating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. enervating: FreeDictionary.org
  15. enervating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. enervating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enervating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enervating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. enervating: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That enervates.

Similar:
enfeebling, debilitating, debilitative, weakening, enravishing, electrifying, agitant, excitative, invigorant, exasperating, more...

Opposite:
invigorating, energizing, stimulating

Types:
tiring, exhausting, draining, sapping, fatiguing, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, last, effeminate, peculiarly, terrible

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Similar:
enfeebling, debilitating, debilitative, weakening, enravishing, electrifying, agitant, excitative, invigorant, exasperating, more...

Opposite:
invigorating, energizing, stimulating

Types:
tiring, exhausting, draining, sapping, fatiguing, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, last, effeminate, peculiarly, terrible



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