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Dull

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Definitions for Dull

verb
make dull in appearance
Examples
  1. Age had dulled the surface
verb
become dull or lusterless in appearance
Examples
  1. lose shine or brightness
  2. the varnished table top dulled with time
verb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Synonyms
muffle mute damp dampen tone down
verb
make numb or insensitive
Synonyms
numb benumb blunt
Examples
  1. The shock numbed her senses
verb
make dull or blunt
Synonyms
blunt
Examples
  1. Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
verb
become less interesting or attractive
Synonyms
pall
verb
make less lively or vigorous
Examples
  1. Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
adjective
lacking in liveliness or animation
Examples
  1. he was so dull at parties
  2. a dull political campaign
  3. a large dull impassive man
  4. dull days with nothing to do
  5. how dull and dreary the world is
  6. fell back into one of her dull moods
adjective
emitting or reflecting very little light
Examples
  1. a dull glow
  2. dull silver badly in need of a polish
  3. a dull sky
adjective
being or made softer or less loud or clear
Synonyms
muffled muted softened
Examples
  1. the dull boom of distant breaking waves
  2. muffled drums
  3. the muffled noises of the street
  4. muted trumpets
adjective
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Synonyms
boring deadening ho-hum irksome slow tedious tiresome wearisome
Examples
  1. a boring evening with uninteresting people
  2. the deadening effect of some routine tasks
  3. a dull play
  4. his competent but dull performance
  5. a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
  6. what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke
  7. tedious days on the train
  8. the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain
  9. other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
adjective
(of color) very low in saturation
Examples
  1. highly diluted
  2. dull greens and blues
adjective
not keenly felt
Examples
  1. a dull throbbing
  2. dull pain
adjective
slow to learn or understand
Synonyms
dense dim dumb obtuse slow
Examples
  1. lacking intellectual acuity
  2. so dense he never understands anything I say to him
  3. never met anyone quite so dim
  4. although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
  5. dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
  6. he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
  7. worked with the slow students
adjective
(of business) not active or brisk
Synonyms
slow sluggish
Examples
  1. business is dull (or slow)
  2. a sluggish market
adjective
not having a sharp edge or point
Examples
  1. the knife was too dull to be of any use
adjective
blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
Examples
  1. a dull gaze
  2. so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
adjective
not clear and resonant
Synonyms
thudding
Examples
  1. sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
  2. the dull thud
  3. thudding bullets
adjective
darkened with overcast
Synonyms
leaden
Examples
  1. a dark day
  2. a dull sky
  3. the sky was leaden and thick

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