Synonyms: dull
Definition: make less lively or vigorous
Usage: Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
Similar words: weaken
Definition: become weaker
Usage: The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days
Synonyms: dull
Definition: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
Usage: the varnished table top dulled with time
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Definition: become less interesting or attractive
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: dull
Definition: make dull in appearance
Usage: Age had dulled the surface
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Definition: make dull or blunt
Usage: Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: dull, blunt, benumb, numb
Definition: make numb or insensitive
Usage: The shock numbed her senses
Similar words: desensitise, desensitize
Definition: cause not to be sensitive
Usage: The war desensitized many soldiers; The photographic plate was desensitized
Synonyms: tone down, dull, damp, dampen, muffle, mute
Definition: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Similar words: soften
Definition: make (images or sounds) soft or softer
Synonyms: dull, slow, sluggish
Definition: (of business) not active or brisk
Usage: business is dull (or slow); a sluggish market
Similar words: inactive
Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Usage: an inactive mine; inactive accounts; inactive machinery
Synonyms: dull
Definition: emitting or reflecting very little light
Usage: a dull glow; dull silver badly in need of a polish; a dull sky
Similar words: flat, matt, matte, matted, mat
Definition: not reflecting light; not glossy
Usage: flat wall paint; a photograph with a matte finish
Similar words: lusterless, lustreless, lackluster, lacklustre
Definition: lacking luster or shine
Usage: staring with lackluster eyes; lusterless hair
Definition: not brilliant or glaring
Usage: the moon cast soft shadows; soft pastel colors; subdued lighting
Synonyms: dull
Definition: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
Usage: dull greens and blues
Similar words: unsaturated
Definition: (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted
Usage: an unsaturated red
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: stupid
Definition: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Definition: darkened with overcast
Usage: a dark day; a dull sky; the sky was leaden and thick
Synonyms: dull
Definition: not having a sharp edge or point
Usage: the knife was too dull to be of any use
Similar words: blunt
Definition: used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
Usage: a blunt instrument
Similar words: blunted, dulled
Definition: made dull or blunt
Similar words: edgeless
Definition: lacking a cutting edge
Similar words: unsharpened
Definition: not sharpened
Synonyms: dull
Definition: not keenly felt
Usage: a dull throbbing; dull pain
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: desiccate, desiccated, arid
Definition: lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
Usage: a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata; a desiccate romance; a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery-C.J.Rolo
Similar words: bovine
Definition: dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox
Usage: showed a bovine apathy
Definition: lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
Usage: her drab personality; life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas; a series of dreary dinner parties
Definition: lacking lightness or liveliness
Usage: heavy humor; a leaden conversation
Similar words: humdrum, monotonous
Definition: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
Usage: a humdrum existence; all work and no play; nothing is so monotonous as the sea
Similar words: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless
Definition: lacking brilliance or vitality
Usage: a dull lackluster life; a lusterless performance
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: uninteresting
Definition: arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement
Usage: a very uninteresting account of her trip
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: unreverberant, nonresonant
Definition: not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate
Synonyms: dull
Definition: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
Usage: a dull gaze; so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather
Similar words: insensitive
Definition: deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
Usage: insensitive to the needs of the patients