Definition of dulls Dulls
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What does dulls mean?
Part of speech
🔤- dulls, verb, present, 3rd person singular of dull (infinitive).
WordNet
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| dull - make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" | ||
| weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | ||
| cloud make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added" | ||
| dull - make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" | ||
| blunt | ||
| sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| dull - become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| dull - make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| dull - deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | ||
| muffle, mute, damp, dampen, tone down | ||
| soften become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it" | ||
| dull - become less interesting or attractive | ||
| pall | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| dull - make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" | ||
| numb, benumb, blunt | ||
| desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him" | ||
Adjectivedull, duller, dullest |
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| dull - 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" | ||
| lively filled with events or activity; "a lively period in history" | ||
| colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful | ||
| spiritless lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism" | ||
| unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull | ||
| dullness without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" | ||
| desiccate, arid, desiccated lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "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 | ||
| bovine dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy" | ||
| dreary, drab lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes" | ||
| leaden, heavy (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps" | ||
| humdrum, monotonous tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" | ||
| dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" | ||
| bright full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway" | ||
| unpolished not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes" | ||
| brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness, brightness, light the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" | ||
| mat, matt, matte, matted, flat tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth" | ||
| lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair" | ||
| dull - not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" | ||
| sharp having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point" | ||
| blunt devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" | ||
| blunted, dulled made dull or blunt | ||
| edgeless lacking a cutting edge | ||
| dull - (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" | ||
| slow, sluggish | ||
| inactive not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature" | ||
| business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" | ||
| dull - not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" | ||
| sharp having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point" | ||
| dull - (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" | ||
| unsaturated (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted; "an unsaturated red" | ||
| dull - darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" | ||
| leaden | ||
| cloudy (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" | ||
| dull - blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather | ||
| insensitive not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation" | ||
| dull - 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" | ||
| muffled, muted, softened | ||
| dull - not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" | ||
| thudding | ||
| dull - 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" | ||
| dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow | ||
| stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | ||
| dull - 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" | ||
| boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome | ||
| uninteresting characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- dull (Verb)
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. - dull (Verb)
To soften, moderate or blunt. - dull (Verb)
To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. - dull (Adjective)
Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp. - dull (Adjective)
Boring; not exciting or interesting. - dull (Adjective)
Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster. - dull (Adjective)
Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- dull (superl.)
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. - dull (superl.)
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. - dull (superl.)
Insensible; unfeeling. - dull (superl.)
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. - dull (superl.)
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror. - dull (superl.)
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. - dull (superl.)
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. - dull (v. t.)
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. - dull (v. t.)
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. - dull (v. t.)
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. - dull (v. t.)
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. - dull (v. i.)
To become dull or stupid.
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Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp. -
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Lacking in intelligence. -
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Causing boredom. -
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To reduce the intensity of a sound. -
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Sad or hostile to the joy of others.
Part of speech
🔤- dull, verb, present, 1st person singular of dull (infinitive).
- dull, verb (infinitive).
- dull, adjective.
