Dull

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring.
  • adjective. Not brisk or rapid; sluggish.
  • adjective. Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Not intensely or keenly felt.
  • adjective. Not bright, vivid, or shiny.
  • adjective. Cloudy or overcast.
  • adjective. Not clear or resonant.
  • adjective. Intellectually weak or obtuse; stupid.
  • adjective. Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive.
  • adjective. Dispirited; depressed.
  • transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become dull.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Stupid; foolish; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding: as, a lad of dull intellect.
  • Heavy; sluggish; drowsy; inanimate; slow in thought, expression, or action: as, a surfeit leaves one dull; a dull thinker; a dull sermon; a dull stream; trade is dull.
  • Wanting sensibility or keenness; not quick in perception: as, dull of hearing; dull of seeing.
  • Sad; melancholy; depressed; dismal.
  • Not pleasing or enlivening; not exhilarating; causing dullness or ennui; depressing; cheerless: as, dull weather; a dull prospect.
  • Gross; inanimate; insensible.
  • Not bright or clear; not vivid; dim; obscure: as, a dull fire or light; a dull red color; the mirror gives a dull reflection.
  • Not sharp or acute; obtuse; blunt: as, a dull sword; a dull needle.
  • Not keenly felt; not intense: as, a dull pain.
  • noun. A noose of string or wire used to snare fish; usually, a noose of bright copper wire attached by a short string to a stout pole.
  • To fish with a dull: as, to dull for trout.
  • To make dull, stupid, heavy, insensible, etc.; lessen the vigor, activity, or sensitiveness of; render inanimate; damp: as, to dull the wits; to dull the senses.
  • To render dim; sully; tarnish or cloud: as, the breath dulls a mirror.
  • To make less sharp or acute; render blunt or obtuse: as, to dull a knife or a needle.
  • To make less keenly felt; moderate the intensity of: as, to dull pain.
  • To become dull or blunt; become stupid.
  • To become calm; moderate: as, the wind dulled, or dulled down, about twelve o'clock.
  • To become deadened in color; lose brightness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become dull or stupid.
  • adjective. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
  • adjective. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
  • adjective. Insensible; unfeeling.
  • adjective. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
  • adjective. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim
  • adjective. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
  • adjective. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; ; hence, cloudy; overcast.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
  • transitive verb. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
  • transitive verb. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  • adjective. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  • adjective. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster.
  • adjective. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
  • verb. To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  • verb. To soften, moderate or blunt.
  • verb. To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  • Word Usage
    "It has been called "the dull product of a scoffer's pen"; it is indeed the "product of a scoffer's pen"; but after reading the Excursion, few people will think it _dull_."
    cross-reference
    blunt  cheerless  dark  darken  depress  
    Equivalent
    arid  blunt  blunted  bovine  cloudy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hull  Mull  Shull  crull  cul  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bright  dark  dim  sad  soft  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    dulled  dulles  dulling  dullness  dulls