Verb1.
make dull in appearance; "Age
had dulled the surface" (hypernym) change, alter, modify2.
become dull or
lusterless in appearance;
lose shine or brightness; "the
varnished table top dulled with time" (hypernym) change3.
deaden (a
sound or noise),
especially by
wrapping (synonym) muffle, mute, damp, dampen,
tone down (hypernym) soften4.
make numb or insensitive; "The
shock numbed her senses" (synonym) numb, benumb,
blunt (hypernym) desensitize, desensitise5.
make dull or blunt; "Too
much cutting dulls the knife's edge" (synonym)
blunt (antonym)
sharpen (hypernym) change, alter, modify6.
become less interesting or
attractive (synonym)
pall (hypernym)
change (derivation) bore, dullard7.
make less lively or vigorous; "Middle
age dulled her appetite for travel" (hypernym)
weaken (hyponym) cloud
Adjective1.
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" (antonym)
lively (similar)
bovine (see-also) colorless,
colourless (attribute) dullness, dulness2.
emitting or
reflecting very little light; "a
dull glow"; "dull
silver badly in
need of a polish"; "a
dull sky" (antonym)
bright (similar) flat, mat, matt, matte,
matted (see-also)
unpolished (attribute) luminosity, brightness,
brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light3.
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" (synonym) muffled, muted,
softened (similar) soft4. 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" (synonym) boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome,
wearisome (similar) uninteresting5. (of color)
very low in saturation;
highly diluted; "dull
greens and blues" (similar) unsaturated6.
not keenly felt; "a
dull throbbing"; "dull pain" (antonym)
sharp (similar) deadened7.
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" (synonym) dense, dim, dumb, obtuse,
slow (similar) stupid8. (of business)
not active or brisk; "business is
dull (or slow)"; "a
sluggish market" (synonym) slow,
sluggish (similar)
inactive (classification)
commercial enterprise,
business enterprise, business9.
not having a
sharp edge or point; "the
knife was too dull to be of
any use" (antonym)
sharp (similar) blunt10.
blunted in
responsiveness or sensibility; "a
dull gaze"; "so
exhausted she was dull to
what went on
about her"-
willa Cather (similar) insensitive11.
not clear and resonant;
sounding as if
striking with or
against something relatively soft; "the
dull thud"; "thudding bullets" (synonym)
thudding (similar) unreverberant, nonresonant12.
darkened with overcast; "a
dark day"; "a
dull sky"; "a
gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the
sky was leaden and thick" (synonym) gray, grey,
leaden (similar) cloudy
(
p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Dull Â
www.interactiveselfstudy.com
A
sound or
track with weak high frequencies;
opposite of bright.
