dull

Meanings

• make dull in appearance
  • "Age had dulled the surface"
• become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
  • "the varnished table top dulled with time"
• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
• make numb or insensitive
• make dull or blunt
  • "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
• become less interesting or attractive
• make less lively or vigorous
  • "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
• 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"
• emitting or reflecting very little light
  • "a dull glow"
  • "dull silver badly in need of a polish"
  • "a dull sky"
• being or made softer or less loud or clear
  • "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"
• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; - Edmund Burke; ; - Mark Twain
  • "a dull play"
  • "his competent but dull performance"
• (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
  • "dull greens and blues"
• not keenly felt
  • "a dull throbbing"
  • "dull pain"
• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; - Thackeray
  • "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"
• (of business) not active or brisk
  • "business is dull (or slow)"
• not having a sharp edge or point
  • "the knife was too dull to be of any use"
• blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; ; - Willa Cather
  • "a dull gaze"
  • "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"
• not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
  • "the dull thud"
• darkened with overcast
  • "a dull sky"

Synonyms

benumb, blunt, boring, damp, dampen, deadening, dense, dim, dumb, ho-hum, irksome, leaden, muffle, muffled, mute, muted, numb, obtuse, pall, slow, sluggish, softened, tedious, thudding, tiresome, tone down, wearisome