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dull

English

  1. 🔊 (of business) not active or brisk
    “business is dull (or slow)”
  2. 🔊 emitting or reflecting very little light
    “a dull glow”
  3. 🔊 (of color) very low in saturation
    “dull greens and blues”
  4. 🔊 darkened with overcast
    “a dark day”
  5. 🔊 not having a sharp edge or point
    “the knife was too dull to be of any use”
  6. 🔊 not keenly felt
    “a dull throbbing”
  7. 🔊 lacking in liveliness or animation
    “he was so dull at parties”
  8. 🔊 being or made softer or less loud or clear
    “the dull boom of distant breaking waves”
  9. 🔊 not clear and resonant
    “the dull thud”
  10. 🔊 blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
    “a dull gaze”
  11. 🔊 slow to learn or understand
    “so dense he never understands anything I say to him”
  12. 🔊 so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    “a boring evening with uninteresting people”
  13. 🔊 make less lively or vigorous
    “Middle age dulled her appetite for travel”
  14. 🔊 become dull or lusterless in appearance
    “the varnished table top dulled with time”
  15. 🔊 make dull in appearance
    “Age had dulled the surface”
  16. 🔊 make dull or blunt
    “Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge”
  17. 🔊 become less interesting or attractive
  18. 🔊 deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
  19. 🔊 make numb or insensitive
    “The shock numbed her senses”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sordo dull
  2. 🔊 triste dull
  3. 🔊 deslustrar to dull
  4. 🔊 desteñido dull, faded
  5. 🔊 embotado dull, blunt
  6. 🔊 sordo dull, muted
  7. 🔊 guasón dull, boring
  8. 🔊 insulso dull, boring
  9. 🔊 mortecino dull, boring
  10. 🔊 pardo dull, overcast
  11. 🔊 abotagar to dull, to blunt
  12. 🔊 anodino dull, boring, run-of-the-mill
  13. 🔊 pánfilo dull, (slow of understanding)
  14. 🔊 alivianar to dull, lighten (to soften, moderate or blunt)

Similar words

pall blunt numb benumb blunt muffle mute damp dampen tone down slow sluggish dense dim dumb obtuse slow leaden boring deadening ho-hum irksome slow tedious