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Dull 1Definition: Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Dull 2Definition: Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. Dull 3Definition: Insensible; unfeeling.
Dull 4Definition: Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. Dull 5Definition: Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror. Dull 6Definition: Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. Dull 7Definition: Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. Dull 8Definition: To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. Dull 9Definition: To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. Dull 10Definition: To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. Dull 11Definition: To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. Dull 12Definition: To become dull or stupid. dull 13Definition: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" dull 14Definition: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" dull 15Definition: become less interesting or attractive dull 16Definition: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" dull 17Definition: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife''s edge" dull 18Definition: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" dull 19Definition: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping dull 20Definition: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" dull 21Definition: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" dull 22Definition: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" dull 23Definition: 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"- Thackeray; "dumb officials mak dull 24Definition: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" dull 25Definition: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" dull 26Definition: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" dull 27Definition: 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" dull 28Definition: 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"; dull 29Definition: 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" dull 30Definition: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" dull 31Definition: 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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