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ADJECTIVE | 1 | dull | Lacking in liveliness or animation |
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2 | dull | Emitting or reflecting very little light | |
3 | dull, muffled, muted, softened | Being or made softer or less loud or clear | |
4 | dull, boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | |
5 | dull | (of color) very low in saturation | |
6 | dull | Not keenly felt | |
7 | dull, dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow | Slow to learn or understand | |
8 | dull, slow, sluggish | (of business) not active or brisk | |
9 | dull | Not having a sharp edge or point | |
10 | dull | Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility | |
11 | dull, thudding | Not clear and resonant | |
12 | dull, gray, grey, leaden | Darkened with overcast | |
VERB | 1 | dull | Make dull in appearance |
2 | dull | Become dull or lusterless in appearance | |
3 | dull, muffle, mute, damp, dampen, tone down | Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | |
4 | dull, numb, benumb, blunt | Make numb or insensitive | |
5 | dull, blunt | Make dull or blunt | |
6 | dull, pall | Become less interesting or attractive | |
7 | dull | Make less lively or vigorous |
Sounds | dah'l |
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Rhymes | abdominal, Abel, able, and 2059 more rhymes in ahl at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Lacking in liveliness or animation. |
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Examples | "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" |
Attribute of | dullness, dulness |
Similar | arid, desiccate, desiccated; bovine; drab, dreary; heavy, leaden; humdrum, monotonous; lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
See also | unanimated; colorless, colourless; spiritless |
Contrary | lively |
Adverbs | dully |
Meaning | Emitting or reflecting very little light. |
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Examples | "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" |
Attribute of | luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light |
Similar | flat, mat, matt, matte, matted; lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
See also | unpolished |
Contrary | bright |
Adverbs | dully |
Meaning | Being or made softer or less loud or clear. |
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Examples | "the dull boom of distant breaking waves" |
Synonyms | muffled, muted, softened |
Similar to | soft |
Meaning | So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. |
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Examples | "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance" |
Synonyms | boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
Similar to | uninteresting |
Meaning | (of color) very low in saturation. Highly diluted. |
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Examples | "dull greens and blues" |
Similar to | unsaturated |
Meaning | Not keenly felt. |
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Examples | "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" |
Similar | deadened |
Contrary | sharp |
Meaning | Slow to learn or understand. Lacking intellectual acuity. |
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Examples | "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray |
Synonyms | dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow |
Similar to | stupid |
Meaning | (of business) not active or brisk. |
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Examples | "business is dull (or slow)" |
Synonyms | slow, sluggish |
Category | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business |
Similar to | inactive |
Meaning | Not having a sharp edge or point. |
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Examples | "the knife was too dull to be of any use" |
Similar | blunt; blunted, dulled; edgeless; unsharpened |
Contrary | sharp |
Meaning | Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility. |
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Examples | "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather |
Similar to | insensitive |
Meaning | Not clear and resonant. Sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft. |
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Examples | "the dull thud" |
Synonyms | thudding |
Similar to | unreverberant, nonresonant |
Meaning | Darkened with overcast. |
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Examples | "a dull sky" |
Synonyms | gray, grey, leaden |
Similar to | cloudy |
Meaning | Make dull in appearance. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Age had dulled the surface" |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Become dull or lusterless in appearance. Lose shine or brightness. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "the varnished table top dulled with time" |
Broader | change |
Meaning | Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | muffle, mute, damp, dampen, tone down |
Broader | soften |
Meaning | Make numb or insensitive. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Synonyms | numb, benumb, blunt |
Broader | desensitize, desensitise |
Meaning | Make dull or blunt. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" |
Synonyms | blunt |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Contrary | sharpen |
Meaning | Become less interesting or attractive. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | pall |
Broader | change |
Nouns | dullard |
Meaning | Make less lively or vigorous. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" |
Narrower | cloud |
Broader | weaken |