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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Opposite of overstraining #161946 09/05/2006 11:38 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin As in 'mental overstraining' - only thing I can think of is 'under demanding'. Would ya'll agree or do you have better suggestions? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Opposite of overstraining #161947 09/05/2006 12:36 PM Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Aramis addict Aramis addict Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Facile? ÅΓª╥┐↕§ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Opposite of overstraining #161948 09/05/2006 1:33 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > facile Not really, I don't think. The implication is, for example, that employment can be detrimental to a person's intellectual health owing to high levels of repetition and thus mental disengagement. Or one might speak of a very sedentary life watching hours of television a day as being this. 'Undemanding' or 'unchallenging' don't really reflect the negative effect. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Opposite of overstraining #161949 09/05/2006 6:26 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Stultifying? Seems to me it refers to the mental effect only rather than couch potatoship. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Opposite of overstraining #161950 09/06/2006 12:34 AM Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8 scribbler101 stranger scribbler101 stranger Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8 I think "underextending" is it. As a Materials Science graduate; I will just point out the oft missed distinction between "stress" and "strain". "Stress" is what is applied to something. "Strain" is what it does in consequence of the stress. So you apply "stress" to a spring by attacing a weight. It "strains" by extending. This has two phases; elastic and inelastic. From the first; when the stress is removed the strain is entirely reversed. One you stress beyond the "elastic limit" inelastic strain occurs and the spring is permanently deformed. That is "overstressing". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Opposite of overstraining #161951 09/06/2006 12:54 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin belligerentyouth old hand belligerentyouth old hand Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,055 Berlin > Stultifying Pretty good! > Underextending Not bad either. Thanks. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Opposite of overstraining #161952 09/06/2006 2:52 PM Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Aramis addict Aramis addict Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US If you want to connote the negative effect of undemanding activity, perhaps 'atrophying'? 'Hypnotic' also comes to mind but seems a bit narrow. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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