deadly vs mind-numbing

deadly

adj
  • Very boring. 

  • Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. 

  • Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.). 

  • Excellent, awesome, cool. 

  • Causing death; lethal. 

adv
  • In a way which suggests death. 

  • Extremely, incredibly. 

mind-numbing

adj
  • Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation. 

How often have the words deadly and mind-numbing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )