Stultify, Sessile, Insuperable, Quixotic, Capricious (lemmy.world)

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stultify - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
sessile - permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
insuperable - impossible to surmount; insurmountable
quixotic - not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; impulsive; whimsical
malevolent - having or exerting a malignant influence
antipathy - a feeling of intense dislike
indissoluble - incapable of being dissolved (in a solution)
inexpert - lack of professional skill or expertise

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov

Short story: That Thou Art Mindful of Him

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