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dull
English
- 🔊 (of business) not active or brisk“business is dull (or slow)”
- 🔊 emitting or reflecting very little light“a dull glow”
- 🔊 (of color) very low in saturation“dull greens and blues”
- 🔊 darkened with overcast“a dark day”
- 🔊 not having a sharp edge or point“the knife was too dull to be of any use”
- 🔊 not keenly felt“a dull throbbing”
- 🔊 lacking in liveliness or animation“he was so dull at parties”
- 🔊 being or made softer or less loud or clear“the dull boom of distant breaking waves”
- 🔊 not clear and resonant“the dull thud”
- 🔊 blunted in responsiveness or sensibility“a dull gaze”
- 🔊 slow to learn or understand“so dense he never understands anything I say to him”
- 🔊 so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness“a boring evening with uninteresting people”
- 🔊 make less lively or vigorous“Middle age dulled her appetite for travel”
- 🔊 become dull or lusterless in appearance“the varnished table top dulled with time”
- 🔊 make dull in appearance“Age had dulled the surface”
- 🔊 make dull or blunt“Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge”
- 🔊 become less interesting or attractive
- 🔊 deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- 🔊 make numb or insensitive“The shock numbed her senses”
Spanish
- 🔊 sordo dull
- 🔊 triste dull
- 🔊 deslustrar to dull
- 🔊 desteñido dull, faded
- 🔊 embotado dull, blunt
- 🔊 sordo dull, muted
- 🔊 guasón dull, boring
- 🔊 insulso dull, boring
- 🔊 mortecino dull, boring
- 🔊 pardo dull, overcast
- 🔊 abotagar to dull, to blunt
- 🔊 anodino dull, boring, run-of-the-mill
- 🔊 pánfilo dull, (slow of understanding)
- 🔊 alivianar to dull, lighten (to soften, moderate or blunt)