Main entry: dull
Definition: make less lively or vigorous
Usage: Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
Main entry: dull
Definition: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
Usage: the varnished table top dulled with time
Definition: become less interesting or attractive
Main entry: dull
Definition: make dull in appearance
Usage: Age had dulled the surface
Definition: make dull or blunt
Usage: Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
Main entry: dull, blunt, benumb, numb
Definition: make numb or insensitive
Usage: The shock numbed her senses
Main entry: tone down, dull, damp, dampen, muffle, mute
Definition: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Main entry: dull, slow, sluggish
Definition: (of business) not active or brisk
Usage: business is dull (or slow); a sluggish market
Main entry: dull
Definition: emitting or reflecting very little light
Usage: a dull glow; dull silver badly in need of a polish; a dull sky
Main entry: dull
Definition: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
Usage: dull greens and blues
Main entry: dim, dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
Definition: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Usage: 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
Definition: darkened with overcast
Usage: a dark day; a dull sky; the sky was leaden and thick
Main entry: dull
Definition: not having a sharp edge or point
Usage: the knife was too dull to be of any use
Main entry: dull
Definition: not keenly felt
Usage: a dull throbbing; dull pain
Main entry: dull
Definition: lacking in liveliness or animation
Usage: 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
Main entry: tiresome, tedious, irksome, boring, ho-hum, slow, dull, deadening, wearisome
Definition: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Usage: 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
Main entry: softened, dull, muffled, muted
Definition: being or made softer or less loud or clear
Usage: the dull boom of distant breaking waves; muffled drums; the muffled noises of the street; muted trumpets
Definition: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
Usage: the dull thud; thudding bullets
Main entry: dull
Definition: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
Usage: a dull gaze; so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather