Dull

/dʌl/ · adjective

Meaning

Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
2. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
3. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
4. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
5. Sluggish, listless.
6. Bored, depressed, down.
7. Cloudy, overcast.
8. Insensible; unfeeling.

Example Sentences

All these knives are dull.

He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.

"You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.

But there we were given only the dullest, driest, pemmicanised forms like The Student's Hume, Once I had a hundred pages of The Student's Hume as a holiday task.

Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.

a dull fire or lamp;  a dull red or yellow;  a dull mirror

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.

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Word Forms

• duller
• dullest
• dul
• dulle
• dulls
• dulling
• dulled

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