| dull [a] |
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| 1) | 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" |
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| bovine drab heavy colorless humdrum lackluster spiritless unanimated dullness lively arid |
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| 2) | emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" |
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| flat lackluster unpolished brightness bright |
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| 3) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | muffled muted softened |
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| soft |
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| 4) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | boring deadening ho-hum irksome slow tedious tiresome wearisome |
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| uninteresting |
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| 5) | (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" |
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| unsaturated |
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| 6) | not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" |
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| deadened sharp |
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| 7) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | dense dim dumb obtuse slow |
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| stupid |
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| 8) | (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" |
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| Synonyms : | slow sluggish |
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| inactive business |
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| 9) | not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" |
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| blunt blunted sharp edgeless unsharpened |
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| 10) | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather |
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| 11) | not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" |
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| Synonyms : | thudding |
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| nonresonant |
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| 12) | darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" |
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| Synonyms : | gray grey leaden |
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| cloudy |
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| dull [v] |
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| 1) | make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" |
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| alter |
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| 2) | become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" |
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| change |
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| 3) | deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
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| Synonyms : | damp dampen muffle mute tone_down |
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| soften damper mute muffler |
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| 4) | make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" |
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| Synonyms : | benumb blunt numb |
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| desensitise |
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| 5) | make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" |
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| Synonyms : | blunt |
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| alter sharpen |
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| 6) | become less interesting or attractive |
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| Synonyms : | pall |
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| change bore |
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| 7) | make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" |
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