| dull | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. dull | make dull in appearance.; "Age had dulled the surface" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 2. dull | become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness.; "the varnished table top dulled with time" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (perception) | 3. damp, dampen, dull, muffle, mute, tone down | deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping. |
| ~ soften | make (images or sounds) soft or softer. |
| v. (perception) | 4. benumb, blunt, dull, numb | make numb or insensitive.; "The shock numbed her senses" |
| ~ desensitise, desensitize | cause not to be sensitive.; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized" |
| v. (contact) | 5. blunt, dull | make dull or blunt.; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 6. dull, pall | become less interesting or attractive. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 7. dull | make less lively or vigorous.; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" |
| ~ weaken | become weaker.; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" |
| ~ cloud | make milky or dull.; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added" |
| adj. | 8. dull | 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" |
| ~ unanimated | not animated or enlivened; dull. |
| ~ colorless, colourless | lacking in variety and interest.; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" |
| ~ desiccate, arid, desiccated | lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless.; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery" |
| ~ bovine | dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox.; "showed a bovine apathy" |
| ~ drab, dreary | lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties" |
| ~ leaden, heavy | lacking lightness or liveliness.; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" |
| ~ monotonous, humdrum | tediously repetitious or lacking in variety.; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" |
| ~ lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless | lacking brilliance or vitality.; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance" |
| ~ spiritless | lacking ardor or vigor or energy.; "a spiritless reply to criticism" |
| adj. | 9. dull | emitting or reflecting very little light.; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" |
| ~ mat, matt, matte, matted, flat | not reflecting light; not glossy.; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" |
| ~ lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless | lacking luster or shine.; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair" |
| ~ subdued, soft | not brilliant or glaring.; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting" |
| ~ unpolished | not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing.; "dull unpolished shoes" |
| adj. | 10. dull, muffled, muted, softened | 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" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| adj. | 11. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome | 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"; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" |
| ~ uninteresting | arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement.; "a very uninteresting account of her trip" |
| adj. | 12. dull | (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted.; "dull greens and blues" |
| ~ unsaturated | (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted.; "an unsaturated red" |
| adj. | 13. dull | not keenly felt.; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" |
| ~ deadened | made or become less intense.; "the deadened pangs of hunger" |
| adj. | 14. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow | 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, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" |
| ~ stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. |
| adj. | 15. dull, slow, sluggish | (of business) not active or brisk.; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" |
| ~ business enterprise, business, commercial enterprise | the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects.; "computers are now widely used in business" |
| ~ inactive | lacking activity; lying idle or unused.; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" |
| adj. | 16. dull | not having a sharp edge or point.; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" |
| ~ blunt | used of a knife or other blade; not sharp.; "a blunt instrument" |
| ~ blunted, dulled | made dull or blunt. |
| ~ edgeless | lacking a cutting edge. |
| ~ unsharpened | not sharpened. |
| adj. | 17. dull | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility.; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her" |
| ~ insensitive | deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
| adj. | 18. dull, thudding | not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft.; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" |
| ~ nonresonant, unreverberant | not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate. |
| adj. | 19. dull, leaden | darkened with overcast.; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" |
| ~ cloudy | full of or covered with clouds.; "cloudy skies" |
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