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Adjective dull has 12 senses
- 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"
Antonyms: lively, alive, bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy, breezy, bubbly, bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, burbling, burbly, effusive, gushing, live, warm
- dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
Antonyms: bright, agleam, gleaming, nitid, aglow, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike, beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent, blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary, blinking, brilliant, flashing, glimmering, glimmery, glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining, iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent, lurid, noctilucent, shimmery, silver, silvern, silvery, bright as a new penny, ardent, twinkling
- 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"
Antonym: loud (indirect, via soft)
- 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"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Antonym: interesting (indirect, via uninteresting)
- dull - (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"
Antonyms: saturated, pure (indirect, via unsaturated)
- dull - not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"
Antonyms: sharp, acute, intense, cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating, fulgurating, scratching, salt
- 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"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
Antonym: smart (indirect, via stupid)
- dull, slow, sluggish - (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
Antonym: active (indirect, via inactive)
- dull - not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"
Antonyms: sharp, carnassial, cutting, edged, incisive, piercing, keen, knifelike, penetrative, penetrating, sharpened, razor-sharp
- dull - blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
Antonym: sensitive (indirect, via insensitive)
- dull, thudding - not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
Antonyms: reverberant, ringing (indirect, via unreverberant)
- dull, gray, grey, leaden - darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
Antonym: clear (indirect, via cloudy)
Verb dull has 7 senses
- dull - make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- dull - become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
--2 is one way to change
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- muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down - deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
--3 is one way to soften
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- numb, benumb, blunt, dull - make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
--4 is one way to desensitize, desensitise
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- dull, blunt - make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: sharpen
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- pall, dull - become less interesting or attractive
--6 is one way to change
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- dull - make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
--7 is one way to weaken
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