dull /dʌl/
1. make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
synset: dull
2. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
synset: dull
3. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
synset: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone_down
4. make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
synset: numb, benumb, blunt, dull
5. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
6. become less interesting or attractive
7. make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
synset: dull
1. 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"
synset: dull
2. emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
synset: dull
3. 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"
synset: dull, muffled, muted, softened
4. 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"
synset: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
5. (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"
synset: dull
6. not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"
synset: dull
7. 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"
synset: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
8. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
9. not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"
synset: dull
10. blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
synset: dull
11. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
12. darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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