Found 3 items, similar to dull.
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Definition: dull
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dull
dull
adj 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” [ant:
lively]
2: emitting or reflecting very little light;
“a dull glow”;
“dull silver badly in need of a polish”;
“a dull sky”
[ant:
bright]
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” [syn:
muffled,
muted,
softened]
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” [syn:
boring,
deadening,
ho-hum,
irksome,
slow,
tedious,
tiresome,
wearisome]
5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted;
“dull
greens and blues”
6: not keenly felt;
“a dull throbbing”;
“dull pain” [ant:
sharp]
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”
[syn:
dense,
dim,
dumb,
obtuse,
slow]
8: (of business) not active or brisk;
“business is dull (or
slow)”;
“a sluggish market” [syn:
slow,
sluggish]
9: not having a sharp edge or point;
“the knife was too dull to
be of any use” [ant:
sharp]
10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility;
“a dull gaze”;
“so
exhausted she was dull to what went on about her”- Willa
Cather
11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or
against something relatively soft;
“the dull thud”;
“thudding bullets” [syn:
thudding]
12: darkened with overcast;
“a dark day”;
“a dull sky”;
“a gray
rainy afternoon”;
“gray clouds”;
“the sky was leaden and
thick” [syn:
gray,
grey,
leaden]
dull
v 1: make dull in appearance;
“Age had dulled the surface”
2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or
brightness;
“the varnished table top dulled with time”
3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
muffle,
mute,
damp,
dampen,
tone down]
4: make numb or insensitive;
“The shock numbed her senses”
[syn:
numb,
benumb,
blunt]
5: make dull or blunt;
“Too much cutting dulls the knife's
edge” [syn:
blunt] [ant:
sharpen]
6: become less interesting or attractive [syn:
pall]
7: make less lively or vigorous;
“Middle age dulled her
appetite for travel”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dull
Dull
\Dull\, a. [Compar.
Duller; superl.
Dullest.] [AS. dol
foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to
wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf.
Gr. ? turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf.
Dolt,
Dwale,
Dwell,
Fraud.]
1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension;
stupid; doltish; blockish.
“Dull at classical learning.”
--Thackeray.
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She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
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2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
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This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing. --Matt. xiii.
15.
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O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
--Spenser.
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3. Insensible; unfeeling.
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Think me not
So dull a devil to forget the loss
Of such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
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4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
“Thy
scythe is dull.” --Herbert.
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5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
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6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
inert.
“The dull earth.” --Shak.
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow.
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7. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy;
depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation
or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
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Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.
Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
Lifeless.
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Dull
\Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Duller; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dulling.]
1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
“This . . .
dulled their swords.” --Bacon.
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Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak.
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2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
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Those [drugs] she has
Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak.
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Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench.
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3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
“Dulls
the mirror.” --Bacon.
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4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
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Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through
continuance. --Hooker.
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Dull
\Dull\, v. i.
To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R.
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