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Dull

dʌl

Dull definitions

adjective

Inflections:

dull duller dullest

lacking interest or excitement

"your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring"

Synonyms:
uninteresting boring tedious tiresome wearisome dry dry as dust flat bland characterless featureless colourless monotonous unexciting uninspiring unstimulating lacking variety lacking variation lacking excitement lacking interest unimaginative uneventful lifeless soulless insipid
- (of a person) feeling bored and dispirited
  
  "she said she wouldn't be dull and lonely"
lacking brightness, vividness, or sheen

"his face glowed in the dull lamplight"

Synonyms:
drab dreary sombre dark subdued muted toned down lacklustre lustreless colourless faded washed out muddy watery pale
- (of the weather) overcast; gloomy
  
  "next morning dawned dull"
- (of sound) not clear; muffled
  
  "a dull thud of hooves"
- (of pain) indistinctly felt; not acute
  
  "there was a dull pain in his lower jaw"
- (of an edge or blade) blunt
  
  "when cutting hard rock the edge soon became dull"
- (of activity) sluggish or slow-moving
  
  "shares closed weaker after a day of dull trading"
(of a person) slow to understand; stupid

"the voice of a teacher talking to a rather dull child"

Synonyms:
unintelligent stupid slow dull-witted slow-witted witless doltish dunce-like stolid vacuous empty-headed brainless mindless foolish half-witted idiotic moronic imbecilic cretinous obtuse
- (of a person's senses) not perceiving things distinctly

verb

Inflections:

dull dulled dulling dulls

make or become dull or less intense

"time dulls the memory"

Synonyms:
lessen decrease diminish reduce dampen depress take the edge off blunt deaden mute soften tone down allay ease soothe assuage alleviate palliate moderate mitigate numb benumb deaden desensitize render insensitive stupefy daze stun fade pale bleach wash out decolorize decolour dim etiolate darken blacken dim blur veil obscure shadow fog dampen put a damper on cast a pall over cast down lower depress crush shake sap suppress extinguish smother stifle