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(of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" unsaturated blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather insensitive not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" unreverberant 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" soft 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" bovine, drab, heavy, humdrum, lackluster, arid not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" deadened not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" blunt, blunted, edgeless, unsharpened darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick" cloudy make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" flat, lackluster (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" inactive make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife''s edge" make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" become less interesting or attractive 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 stupid deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping 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"; uninteresting make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" |
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