dull

dull: adj

1. unintelligent, witless, slow-witted, dull-witted; stolid, obtuse, crass, Boeotian, bovine, blockish, lumpish; dense, thick-headed, Inf. thick, slow, stupid, Brit., Australian Inf. dill, Scot, and North Eng. dowf; backward, doltish, Sl. birdbrained, simple; empty-headed, vacuous; unimaginative, undiscerning.

2. insensible, unfeeling, numb; callous, hardened, inured; unresponsive, insensitive, unsympathetic, unre-ceptive; passionless, indifferent, uncaring.

3. sluggish, phlegmatic, lethargic, torpid, heavy, lifeless; languid, listless, spiritless, apathetic; inactive, inert, stagnant; lazy, oscitant, drowsy.

4. tedious, tiresome, boring, boresome, wearisome, uninteresting, Sl. dead, dry, dry-as-dust; tasteless, bland, insipid, jejune, flat, vapid, Sl. for the birds, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; uneventful, humdrum, monotonous, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, prosaic, matter-of-fact.

5. dreary, dismal, Scot, and North Eng. dowie, bleak, drab, somber; murky, lowering, gloomy, dark, sunless; cheerless, sad, melancholy.

6. cloudy, dim, indistinct, blurred, blurry, gray, opaque; lackluster, lusterless, colorless, Optics. achromatic; tarnished, faded, washed out; deadened, dulled, muted, muffled, stifled, softened.

7. blunt, unsharpened, dulled, pointless, edgeless.

v

8. blunt, take the edge off of, obtund; lessen, allay, assuage, alleviate, palliate; appease, soothe, relieve, ease, soften, cushion; slake, quench, deaden; decrease, diminish, reduce; modify, moderate, temper.

9. stupefy, benumb, hebetate, besot; sedate, narcotize, opiate, drug, tranquilize, lethargize.

10. fade, blanch, bleach, whiten, gray, wash out; etiolate, achromatize, decolor, decolorize.

11. obscure, cloud, becloud, blur; darken, dim, bedim, bedull; tarnish, sully, stain.

12. depress, deject, dishearten, dispirit, discourage; damp, dampen, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket on, cast a pall over.

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Synonyms:

Stupid, stolid, doltish, blockish, brutish, unintelligent, blunt-witted, Blunt, make blunt / Apathetic, insensible, unimpassioned, passionless, dead, callous, Stupefy, benumb, deaden, paralyze, obtund, hebetate, make or render insensible, render callous, make obtuse / Inert, inactive, lifeless, inanimate, heavy, sluggish, slow, torpid, Depress, dishearten, discourage, dispirit, deject, make melancholy, make sad, gloomy, or dejected / Blunt, obtuse, dulled, Quiet, allay, moderate, assuage, mitigate, alleviate, soften / Gloomy, sad, dismal, cheerless, Sully, tarnish, dim / Dim, obscure / Tedious, wearisome, tiresome, uninteresting, dreary, dry, jejune

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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},… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dull — adj 1 *stupid, slow, dumb, dense, crass Analogous words: *lethargic, sluggish, comatose: phlegmatic, stolid, *impassive, apathetic: *backward: retarded (see DELAY vb) Antonyms: clever, bright … New Dictionary of Synonyms
dull — [dul] adj. [ME dul < OE dol, stupid, akin to Ger toll < IE * dh(e)wel < base * dheu , blow, be turbid > DUMB, DWELL, OIr dall, blind, Gr thanatos, death] 1. mentally slow; stupid 2. lacking sensitivity; blunted in feeling or… … English World dictionary
Dull — DULL, a parish, in the county of Perth, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Aberfeldy; containing, with parts of the late quoad sacra parishes of Foss and Tenandry, and part of the village of Aberfeldy, 3811 inhabitants, of whom 145 are in the village of… … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland
dull — [dʌl] adjective JOURNALISM if business on a financial market is dull, not many people are buying or selling: • Shares closed lower in dull trading. • Investors were busy moving in and out of two year Treasury notes yesterday, providing a bit of… … Financial and business terms
Dull — may refer to: Boring Dull, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom Dull Gret, a figure of Flemish folklore People with the surname Dull: Jack Dull (1930 1995), professor at the University of Washington John Dull (21st century), American… … Wikipedia
dull — [adj1] unintelligent addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim, dim witted, doltish, dumb, feeble minded, half baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, low, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse,… … New thesaurus
Düll — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Heinrich Düll (1867–1956), deutscher Bildhauer und Musiker der Prinzregentenzeit Rudolf Düll (1887–1979), deutscher Jurist Ruprecht Düll (* 1931), deutscher Botaniker Siehe auch Privatbrauerei Friedrich… … Deutsch Wikipedia
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. [1913 Webster] Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To make dull, stupid … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dull — (adj.) c.1200, stupid; early 13c., blunt, not sharp; rare before mid 14c., apparently from O.E. dol dull witted, foolish, or an unrecorded parallel word, or from M.L.G. dul slow witted, both from P.Gmc. *dulaz (Cf. O.Fris., O.S. dol foolish,… … Etymology dictionary
Dull — Dull, v. i. To become dull or stupid. Rom. of R. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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