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dull in WordNet English dictionary
verb- make numb or insensitive
"The shock numbed her senses"
numb benumb blunt dull
- make dull or blunt
"Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
dull blunt
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
muffle mute dull damp dampen tone down
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
"the varnished table top dulled with time"
dull
- make less lively or vigorous
"Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
dull
- become less interesting or attractive
pall dull
- make dull in appearance
"Age had dulled the surface"
dull
adjective- 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"
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow tedious tiresome wearisome
- 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"
dense dim dull dumb obtuse slow
- not having a sharp edge or point
"the knife was too dull to be of any use"
dull
- emitting or reflecting very little light
"a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
dull
- 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"
dull
- not keenly felt
"a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"
dull
- darkened with overcast
"a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
dull leaden
- (of business) not active or brisk
"business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
dull slow sluggish
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
"a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
dull
- 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"
dull muffled muted softened
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
"the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
dull thudding
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
"dull greens and blues"
dull
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University