Dull

What do we mean by dull?

Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring. adjective

Not brisk or rapid; sluggish. adjective

Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt. adjective

Not intensely or keenly felt. adjective

Not bright, vivid, or shiny. adjective

Cloudy or overcast. adjective

Not clear or resonant. adjective

Intellectually weak or obtuse; stupid. adjective

Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive. adjective

Dispirited; depressed. adjective

To make or become dull. transitive & intransitive verb

Stupid; foolish; doltish; blockish; slow of understanding: as, a lad of dull intellect.

Heavy; sluggish; drowsy; inanimate; slow in thought, expression, or action: as, a surfeit leaves one dull; a dull thinker; a dull sermon; a dull stream; trade is dull.

Wanting sensibility or keenness; not quick in perception: as, dull of hearing; dull of seeing.

Sad; melancholy; depressed; dismal.

Not pleasing or enlivening; not exhilarating; causing dullness or ennui; depressing; cheerless: as, dull weather; a dull prospect.

Gross; inanimate; insensible.

Not bright or clear; not vivid; dim; obscure: as, a dull fire or light; a dull red color; the mirror gives a dull reflection.

To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.

To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.

To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.

To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

Words that are spelled similarly to dull:
dull.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word dull:
uninteresting, lanceolate, purplish, monotonous, paler, mottled, yellowish, reddish, whitish, fuscous, bluish, boring, blackish, forewing, suffused, knife, buff, throat, passerine, plumage, cheyenne, pale, coloration, underside, costal, shiny, glossy, faint, insects, darker, bright, grey, veins, sexes, belly, yellow, seeds, repetitive, colour, abdomen, breast, hairy, hairs, transverse, basal, olive, oblique, shades, spots, stripe, brown, apex, scales, feathers, dorsal, feeding, patches, purple, gray, flesh, blade, dark, orange, stripes, metallic, moment, patch, tips, aerial, coloured, pain, pink, tail, leaf, color, flowers, green, costa, edges, juvenile, larvae, subspecies, lacking, adults, margin, appearance, moments, legs, colored, lighter, wings, slight, gameplay, sharp, rounded, spotted, white, adapted, interesting, thick.

Words that rhyme with dull:
will, null, mull, cull, lull, gull, hull, skull, scull, seagull, squill, cul, ul, tull, trull, stull, gul, sul, laughing gull, crull, yul, krull, leful, strull, ruhl, guhl, chul, shull, kuhl, kull, woodhull, herring gull, sea gull, ivory gull, mew gull, muhl, krul, uhl, juhl, dulle, thul, puhl, bruhl, earfull, fs will, goksel, schmuhl, smull, thull.

Adjectives that are often used to describe dull:
honest, maze, sharp, very, more, bent, rare, christian, 90-110, appearance, west, athletic, red, granular, good, impenetrable, small, botryoidal, thick, last, right, innocent, interesting, plus.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective dull:
pain, eyes, ache, sound, brown, thud, day, life, color, red, light, colour, routine, boy, yellow, moment, place, roar, glow, days, voice, heat, green, appearance, surface, children, monotony, knife, finish, headache, grey, weather, reading, sky, gray, fellow, season, mind, look, edge, child, ones, eye, town, redness, book, blue, care, gold, black, orange, hue, round, page, face, affair, tone, morning, evening, business, ear, purple, feeling, existence, uniformity, pupils, senses, colors, brain, expression, noise, note, despair, hair, earth, lives, afternoon, thuds, ears, hours, sensation, boom, job, stuff, pains, subject.

Consonant match to dull:
deal, doll, dole, dual, dial, dall, dell, dale, dhole, dal, dill, doyle, dahl, del, dail, dol, diel, deel, dule, dowle, doole, delle, duell, diehl, deale, daul, dayle, dolle, dille, dulle, deihl, daile, deahl, doell.

Words that sound like dull:
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