dull
IPA: dˈʌɫ
noun
- A surname. of Scottish and German origin.
- A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland.
verb
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
adjective
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
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Examples of "dull" in Sentences
- Noah says brilliant it puts alot of fun in dull things
- October 13, 2009 at 12: 51 am. .and OMG how boring and dull is Lucie?!
- "It is so what you call dull, Sir John," she protested in her coquettish way.
- "I don't know what you call dull," replied the old man, as if half offended at the suggestion.
- It has been called "the dull product of a scoffer's pen"; it is indeed the "product of a scoffer's pen"; but after reading the Excursion, few people will think it _dull_.
- Inventor Thomas Edison, who gave us the light bulb and other inventions 1,093 patents that ushered in the 20th century, was called dull by a grade school teacher who believed that Edison had no ability to learn.
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