tending to stifle enthusiasm, initiative, or freedom of action
the stultifying conformity of provincial life
the corporate environment, with its relentless emphasis on results, has become stultifying
the stultifying heat of Madrid in July
cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine
he found ways of gently subverting the class system that stultified 1950s English society
cause (someone) to appear foolish or absurd