dull

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• February 12. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  become less interesting or attractive

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — verb — english

  make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  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"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  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"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  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"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  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 make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"

• March 23. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  dull — adjective — english

  darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"