DULL as VERB

1. Meaning
   • make less lively or vigorous
   Usage Example(s)
   • Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • weaken (what does weaken mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • cloud (what does cloud mean?)
2. Meaning
   • become dull or lusterless in appearance
   • lose shine or brightness
   Usage Example(s)
   • the varnished table top dulled with time
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • change (what does change mean?)
3. Meaning
   • become less interesting or attractive
   Synonym(s)
   • pall (what does pall mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • change (what does change mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • bore (what does bore mean?)
   • dullard (what does dullard mean?)
4. Meaning
   • make dull in appearance
   Usage Example(s)
   • Age had dulled the surface
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • change (what does change mean?)
   • alter (what does alter mean?)
   • modify (what does modify mean?)
5. Meaning
   • make dull or blunt
   Synonym(s)
   • blunt (what does blunt mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • Too much cutting dulls the knife’’s edge
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • change (what does change mean?)
   • alter (what does alter mean?)
   • modify (what does modify mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • sharpen (what does sharpen mean?)
6. Meaning
   • make numb or insensitive
   Synonym(s)
   • benumb (what does benumb mean?)
   • blunt (what does blunt mean?)
   • numb (what does numb mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • The shock numbed her senses
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • desensitize (what does desensitize mean?)
   • desensitise (what does desensitise mean?)
7. Meaning
   • deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
   Synonym(s)
   • damp (what does damp mean?)
   • dampen (what does dampen mean?)
   • muffle (what does muffle mean?)
   • mute (what does mute mean?)
   • tone down (what does tone down mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) dull is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • soften (what does soften mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • damper (what does damper mean?)
   • muffler (what does muffler mean?)
   • mute (what does mute mean?)
   • damper (what does damper mean?)
   • muffler (what does muffler mean?)
   • silencer (what does silencer mean?)
   • muffler (what does muffler mean?)

DULL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • (of business) not active or brisk
   Synonym(s)
   • slow (what does slow mean?)
   • sluggish (what does sluggish mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • business is dull (or slow)
   • a sluggish market
   Similar To
   • inactive (what does inactive mean?)
2. Meaning
   • emitting or reflecting very little light
   Usage Example(s)
   • a dull glow
   • dull silver badly in need of a polish
   • a dull sky
   Antonym(s)
   • bright (what does bright mean?)
   Similar To
   • flat (what does flat mean?)
   • mat (what does mat mean?)
   • matt (what does matt mean?)
   • matte (what does matte mean?)
   • matted (what does matted mean?)
   • lackluster (what does lackluster mean?)
   • lacklustre (what does lacklustre mean?)
   • lusterless (what does lusterless mean?)
   • lustreless (what does lustreless mean?)
   See Also
   • unpolished (what does unpolished mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • luminosity (what does luminosity mean?)
   • brightness (what does brightness mean?)
   • brightness level (what does brightness level mean?)
   • luminance (what does luminance mean?)
   • luminousness (what does luminousness mean?)
   • light (what does light mean?)
3. Meaning
   • (of color) very low in saturation
   • highly diluted
   Usage Example(s)
   • dull greens and blues
   Similar To
   • unsaturated (what does unsaturated mean?)
4. Meaning
   • slow to learn or understand
   • lacking intellectual acuity
   Synonym(s)
   • dense (what does dense mean?)
   • dim (what does dim mean?)
   • dumb (what does dumb mean?)
   • obtuse (what does obtuse mean?)
   • slow (what does slow mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • stupid (what does stupid mean?)
5. Meaning
   • darkened with overcast
   Synonym(s)
   • gray (what does gray mean?)
   • grey (what does grey mean?)
   • leaden (what does leaden mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a dark day
   • a dull sky
   • a gray rainy afternoon
   • gray clouds
   • the sky was leaden and thick
   Similar To
   • cloudy (what does cloudy mean?)
6. Meaning
   • not having a sharp edge or point
   Usage Example(s)
   • the knife was too dull to be of any use
   Antonym(s)
   • sharp (what does sharp mean?)
   Similar To
   • blunt (what does blunt mean?)
   • blunted (what does blunted mean?)
   • dulled (what does dulled mean?)
   • edgeless (what does edgeless mean?)
   • unsharpened (what does unsharpened mean?)
7. Meaning
   • not keenly felt
   Usage Example(s)
   • a dull throbbing
   • dull pain
   Antonym(s)
   • sharp (what does sharp mean?)
   Similar To
   • deadened (what does deadened mean?)
8. Meaning
   • lacking in liveliness or animation
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Antonym(s)
   • lively (what does lively mean?)
   Similar To
   • bovine (what does bovine mean?)
   • drab (what does drab mean?)
   • dreary (what does dreary mean?)
   • heavy (what does heavy mean?)
   • leaden (what does leaden mean?)
   • humdrum (what does humdrum mean?)
   • monotonous (what does monotonous mean?)
   • lackluster (what does lackluster mean?)
   • lacklustre (what does lacklustre mean?)
   • lusterless (what does lusterless mean?)
   • lustreless (what does lustreless mean?)
   • arid (what does arid mean?)
   • desiccate (what does desiccate mean?)
   • desiccated (what does desiccated mean?)
   See Also
   • colorless (what does colorless mean?)
   • colourless (what does colourless mean?)
   • spiritless (what does spiritless mean?)
   • unanimated (what does unanimated mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • dullness (what does dullness mean?)
   • dulness (what does dulness mean?)
9. Meaning
   • so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
   Synonym(s)
   • boring (what does boring mean?)
   • deadening (what does deadening mean?)
   • ho-hum (what does ho-hum mean?)
   • irksome (what does irksome mean?)
   • slow (what does slow mean?)
   • tedious (what does tedious mean?)
   • tiresome (what does tiresome mean?)
   • wearisome (what does wearisome mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • uninteresting (what does uninteresting mean?)
10. Meaning
    • being or made softer or less loud or clear
    Synonym(s)
    • muffled (what does muffled mean?)
    • muted (what does muted mean?)
    • softened (what does softened mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • the dull boom of distant breaking waves
    • muffled drums
    • the muffled noises of the street
    • muted trumpets
    Similar To
    • soft (what does soft mean?)
11. Meaning
    • not clear and resonant
    • sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
    Synonym(s)
    • thudding (what does thudding mean?)
    Usage Example(s)
    • the dull thud
    • thudding bullets
    Similar To
    • unreverberant (what does unreverberant mean?)
    • nonresonant (what does nonresonant mean?)
12. Meaning
    • blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
    Usage Example(s)
    • a dull gaze
    • so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather
    Similar To
    • insensitive (what does insensitive mean?)