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dull
adjective
- Having only a limited ability to learn and understand: backward, simple, simple-minded, slow, slow-witted. Informal: soft. Offensive: feeble-minded, half-witted, retarded, weak-minded. See ability
- Lacking responsiveness or alertness: benumbed, insensible, insensitive, numb, stuporous, torpid, unresponsive, wooden. See awareness
- Unwilling or unable to perceive: blind, purblind, uncomprehending, unperceptive. See see
- Lacking passion and emotion: anesthetic, bloodless, insensate, insensible, insensitive. See attitude, feelings
- In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idiom: down at (or in) the mouth. See happy
- Characterized by reduced economic activity: down, off, slack, slow, sluggish, soft. See increase
- Not physically sharp or keen: blunt. See sharp
- Arousing no interest or curiosity: boring, drear, dreary, dry, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary. See excite
- Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise: arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dry, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, sterile, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired. See excite
- Lacking vividness in color: dim, drab, flat, muddy, murky. See colors
- Lacking gloss and luster: dim, flat, lackluster, lusterless, mat. See light
verb
- To make or become less keen or responsive: dim, hebetate, stupefy. See awareness
- To render less sensitive: benumb, blunt, deaden, desensitize, numb. Idiom: take the edge off. See awareness
- To make or become less sharp-edged: blunt, turn. Idiom: take the edge off. See sharp
- To make dim or indistinct: becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blur, cloud, dim, eclipse, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shadow. See clear
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