dull meaning
MeaningMobile
- Adjective: dull (duller,dullest) dúl
- 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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- Make dull in appearance
"Age had dulled the surface" - Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
"the varnished table top dulled with time" - Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- muffle, mute, damp, dampen, tone down - Make numb or insensitive
- numb, benumb, blunt - Make dull or blunt
"Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
- blunt - Become less interesting or attractive
- pall - Make less lively or vigorous
"Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
Derived forms: dullest, dulling, dulls, duller, dulled
See also: arid, blunt, blunted, bovine, brightness, brightness level, cloudy, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], deadened, desiccate, desiccated, drab, dreary, dullard, dulled, dullness, dully, edgeless, flat, heavy, humdrum, inactive, insensitive, lackluster [US], lacklustre [Brit, Cdn], leaden, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, lusterless [N. Amer], lustreless [Brit, Cdn], mat, matt, matte, matted, monotonous, monotonousness, nonresonant, soft, spiritless, stupid, subdued, unanimated, uninteresting, unpolished, unreverberant, unsaturated, unsharpened
Type of: alter, change, desensitise [Brit], desensitize, modify, soften, weaken
Antonym: bright, lively, sharp, sharpen
Encyclopedia: Dull Dull, Perth & Kinross Dull, Perth and Kinross
- Lacking in liveliness or animation
[Medicine]
adj
1 : mentally slow or stupid
2 : slow in perception or sensibility
3 : lacking sharpness of edge or point ‹a dull scalpel›
4 : lacking in force, intensity, or acuteness ‹a dull pain› — dull vb — dull·ness or dul·ness n — dul·ly adv
Examples
- Village life is too dull for me.
- Lab work is dull and repetitious.
- It would be very dull to be married to denis.
- It had been dull and somber enough.
- Their dress was plain and dull in colouring.
- It is so much better than just dull comfort.
- Then followed a time of dull misery.
- Watching television dulls one 's wits.
- I dare say you 're dull at home.
- The lecture was as dull as ditchwater.
Other Languages
- "dull" meaning in Chinese: adj. 1.愚钝的,感觉迟钝的,呆笨的。2.钝的,不快的,不锋利的 (opp. sharp)。3.(天气等)阴郁...
- "dull" meaning in Japanese: dull adj. 退屈な, つまらない; 鈍い; (色 光 音などが)さえない. 【副詞】 ◆deadly dul...
- "dull" meaning in Russian: 1) тупой, бестолковый, тупоумный Ex: dull brain (intellige...
- "dull" meaning in French: v. émousser, ternir, assombrir adj. lent, lourd, triste...