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Make dull in appearance Age had dulled the surface |
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Become dull or lusterless in appearance Lose shine or brightness The varnished table top dulled with time |
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Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
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Make numb or insensitive The shock numbed her senses |
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Make dull or blunt Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge |
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Become less interesting or attractive |
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Make less lively or vigorous Middle age dulled her appetite for travel |
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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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Emitting or reflecting very little light A dull glow Dull silver badly in need of a polish A dull sky |
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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 |
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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 |
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(of color) very low in saturation Highly diluted Dull greens and blues |
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Not keenly felt A dull throbbing Dull pain |
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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 |
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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 |
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(of business) not active or brisk Business is dull (or slow) A sluggish market |
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Not having a sharp edge or point The knife was too dull to be of any use |
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Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility A dull gaze So exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather |
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Not clear and resonant Sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft The dull thud Thudding bullets |
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Darkened with overcast A dark day A dull sky The sky was leaden and thick |
| 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 |