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Acronumb: (adj.) to be thoroughly put off of a conversation due to its acronym content. The state of being so bored by a conversation that you could not understand, even with a dictionary and a geek translator.
(v) to be put off of a conversation inundated with the use of highly technical acronyms and jargon.

Dude, I was standing in line and these two Computer Science guys started talking...within three minutes, I was acronumbed.

Oh man, I was reading this military website, and I had to wrap my head around how they acronymize everything...by the end of the first page, I was acronumb. Too much acronymonics is just not a good thing if you are trying to entice kids to join the armed forces, they might develop acronymphobia.

I am always amazed at the way that your socially awkward cousin manages to be so damn acronymious, even at a party! I mean, a girl even tried to talk to him and he made her acronumb! What a geek!

Will you stop being so damn acronymatic? There are cool people here, and you are going to make them acronumb.
Acronumb by Pixielo May 8, 2008
Related Words
One who is not educated in formalized spelling who is confined to using simple letter abbreviations for words and sentences to communicate with others through some electronic device. This person is known as an Acronist.
Being and Acronist Johnny's message was never understood by the 911 operator and hence he was not able to reach safety in time.

lol = Laugh out loud
ntc = I'm in the can
Acronist by basprimas March 16, 2010

Acronesia 

The act of temporarily forgetting an acronym, and needing to look it up, or ask a friend what it stands for.
"What's SMH again? Darn it, I KNOW THIS. I guess I'm having another fit of acronesia..."
Acronesia by thefoldrock April 9, 2012

acronystic 

Descriptive of a word that is an acronym. Also: descriptive of a tendency to be abbreviated.
Acronystic terms such as "lol" and "brb" have enjoyed widespread use on the internet.
acronystic by Peer Gynt December 2, 2009
Simply, "speaking in, or the language of, acronyms", including the abbreviated jargon of the particular subculture in which the acronymns develop. This results in different kinds of acronese, just like there are different languages. There are also unspoken rules of form in each subculture. So, in the IT world, TLA is a "Three Letter Acronym", but FLA is not a "Four Letter Acronym". That is too obvious, and would violate the unspoken rule that IT people are to look down and intimidate all other lesser mortals as inferior beings. So, XTLA is the proper form, an "Extended Three Letter Acronymn".
In computing acronese, the "IT Ten T" translates as "Moronic User Error". It is written as "ID10T!"
In the early acronese of letter-writing, LOL meant "lots of love". In acronese of social text messaging, it means "Laugh out Loud!" PIMP LOL means, "Pee in my pants laughing out loud!"
an abbreviated form of a set of words, that form being comprised of a combination of both an initialism(s) and acronym(s)
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is both an initialism (J+P..) and an acronym (.."PEG"), therefore it is an acronism.
acronism by Gentry Hoffman March 20, 2008