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(satellite adjective) (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" |
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Synonyms: slow, sluggish |
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(verb) make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" |
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Related Words: cloud, weaken |
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(verb) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness, as of a varnished surface |
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Related Words: change |
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(adjective) emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" |
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Antonyms: bright |
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(satellite adjective) (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" |
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(satellite adjective) darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" |
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Synonyms: gray, grey, leaden |
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(adjective) not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" |
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Antonyms: sharp |
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(adjective) not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" |
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Antonyms: sharp |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: lively |
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(verb) make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) make dull or blunt, as of sharp edges or knives' blades |
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Synonyms: blunt |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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Antonyms: sharpen |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: muffled, muted, softened |
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(satellite adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"; "thumping feet on the carpeted stairs" |
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Synonyms: thudding, thumping |
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(satellite adjective) blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather |
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(verb) become less interesting or attractive |
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Synonyms: pall |
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Related Words: change |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping |
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Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down |
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Related Words: soften |
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(verb) make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" |
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Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb |
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Related Words: desensitize |
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