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Dull Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Dull?
[adj] (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
[adj] emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [adj] (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" [adj] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [adj] darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [adj] not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [adj] not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [adj] lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [adj] so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [adj] being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [adj] not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"; "thumping feet on the carpeted stairs" [adj] blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather [v] make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" [v] become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness, as of a varnished surface [v] become less interesting or attractive [v] make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" [v] make dull or blunt, as of sharp edges or knives' blades [v] make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [v] deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping Synonyms | Synonyms for Dull: arid | benumb | blunt | blunt | blunt | blunted | boring | bovine | cloudy | damp | dampen | deadened | deadening | dense | desiccate | desiccated | dim | drab | dreary | dulled | dumb | edgeless | flat | gray | grey | heavy | ho-hum | humdrum | inactive | insensitive | irksome | lackluster | lacklustre | leaden | lusterless | lustreless | mat | matt | matte | matted | monotonous | muffle | muffled | mute | muted | nonresonant | numb | obtuse | pall | slow | sluggish | soft | softened | stupid | tedious | thudding | thumping | tiresome | tone down | uninteresting | unreverberant | unsaturated | unsharpened | wearisome Related Terms | Find terms related to Dull: abate | abeyant | abrupt | achromatic | achromatize | achromic | acier | affectless | allay | alleviate | aloof | anemic | anesthetic | anesthetize | anesthetized | apathetic | appease | arctic | arid | ascetic | ashen | ashy | asleep | assuage | asthenic | attemper | attenuate | austere | autistic | backward | bad | baffle | bald | banausic | bank the fire | bare | barren | bate | bated | becloud | bedaze | bedim | beef-witted | befog | benumb | benumbed | besot | betwixt and between | blah | blanch | blank | blase | bleach | blear | blear-witted | bled white | blind | bloodless | blue | bluff | blunt | blunted | blunt-edged | blunt-ended | bluntish | blunt-pointed | blunt-witted | blur | blurry | bored | boring | bovine | brainless | broken-record | bromidic | cadaverous | callous | candid | canescent | cast down | cataleptic 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| unman | unnerve | unnerved | unnervous | unoriginal | unpassionate | unperceptive | unpoetic | unpoetical | unpointed | unresponding | unresponsive | unromantic | unromanticized | unsharp | unsharpened | unstrengthen | unstring | unstrung | unsusceptible | unsympathetic | untouchable | unvarnished | unvarying | vapid | vegetable | vegetative | wan | wash out | washed-out | waxen | weak | weaken | weakly | weariful | wearisome | weary | whey-faced | white | whiten | wishy-washy | withdrawn | wooden | world-weary See Also | alter | change | change | cloud | colorless | colourless | desensitise | desensitize | soften | spiritless | unanimated | unpolished | weaken Dull In Webster's Dictionary \Dull\, a. [Compar. {Duller}; superl. {Dullest}.] [AS. dol
foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to
wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf.
Gr. ? turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf.
{Dolt}, {Dwale}, {Dwell}, {Fraud}.]
1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension;
stupid; doltish; blockish. ``Dull at classical learning.''
--Thackeray.
She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing. --Matt. xiii.
15.
O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
--Spenser.
3. Insensible; unfeeling.
Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of
such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. ``Thy
scythe is dull.'' --Herbert.
5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
inert. ``The dull earth.'' --Shak.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow.
7. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy;
depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation
or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.
Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
{Lifeless}.
\Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Duller}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dulling}.] 1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. ``This . . . dulled their swords.'' --Bacon. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak. 2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench. 3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls the mirror.'' --Bacon. 4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. --Hooker. \Dull\, v. i. To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R. |
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