To dull something means to take away its edge, its energy, or its excitement. "Watching that movie will dull your senses, until you fall asleep."
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Verb
make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
Verb
become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
Verb
become less interesting or attractive
Verb
make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
Verb
make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife''s edge"
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make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
Verb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Adjective S.
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
Adjective
emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
Adjective S.
(of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"
Adjective S.
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 mak
Adjective S.
darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
Adjective
not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"
Adjective
not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"
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"
Adjective S.
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";
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
Adjective S.
blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
superl.
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of
apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
superl.
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
superl.
Insensible; unfeeling.
superl.
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
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.
superl.
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
inert.
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.
v. t.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
v. t.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
v. t.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
v. t.
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
v. i.
To become dull or stupid.
Dull
She is not bred so dull but she can learn.2.
This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.3.
Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife.4.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.7.
Along life's dullest, dreariest walk.
Dull
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.2.
Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.
Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.3.
Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance.
Dull
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
To become dull or stupid.
Usage Examples
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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Other Usage ExamplesGreek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
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