Hyphenation of dull

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dull

Definitions of dull:

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
4.
Make numb or insensitive
The shock numbed her senses
5.
Make dull or blunt
Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
6.
Become less interesting or attractive
7.
Make less lively or vigorous
Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
8.
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
9.
Emitting or reflecting very little light
A dull glow Dull silver badly in need of a polish A dull sky
10.
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
11.
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
12.
(of color) very low in saturation
Highly diluted Dull greens and blues
13.
Not keenly felt
A dull throbbing Dull pain
14.
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
15.
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
16.
(of business) not active or brisk
Business is dull (or slow) A sluggish market
17.
Not having a sharp edge or point
The knife was too dull to be of any use
18.
Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
A dull gaze So exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather
19.
Not clear and resonant
Sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft The dull thud Thudding bullets
20.
Darkened with overcast
A dark day A dull sky The sky was leaden and thick

Synonyms of dull:

adj dull, bovine, drab, dreary, heavy, leaden, humdrum, monotonous, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, arid, desiccate, desiccated, colorless, colourless, spiritless, unanimated
adj dull, flat, mat, matt, matte, matted, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, unpolished
adj muffled, muted, softened, soft
adj boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, uninteresting
adj unsaturated
adj dull, deadened
adj dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow, stupid
adj slow, sluggish, inactive
adj dull, blunt, blunted, dulled, edgeless, unsharpened
adj insensitive
adj thudding, unreverberant, nonresonant
adj gray, grey, leaden, cloudy
verb change, alter, modify
verb change
verb muffle, mute, damp, dampen, tone down, soften
verb numb, benumb, blunt, desensitize, desensitise
verb blunt, change, alter, modify
verb pall, change
verb weaken

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