Synonym: blunt, boring, dingy, dreary, dry, flat, gray, inactive, slow, sluggish, stupid, uninteresting, bright, keen, sharp, vivid. Similar words: adult, schedule, indulge, adultery, modulate, undulant, credulous, pendulum. Meaning: [dʌl] v. 1. make dull in appearance 2. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness 3. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping 4. make numb or insensitive 5. make dull or blunt 6. become less interesting or attractive 7. make less lively or vigorous. adj. 1. lacking in liveliness or animation 2. emitting or reflecting very little light 3. being or made softer or less loud or clear 4. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness 5. (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted 6. not keenly felt 7. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity 8. (of business) not active or brisk 9. not having a sharp edge or point 10. blunted in responsiveness or sensibility 11. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft 12. darkened with overcast.
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121. The knife is dull.
122. Last week we had a hurricane. Never a dull moment running a hotel in the Caribbean .
123. A dull ache throbbed at the back of David's head.
124. Their media has earned the reputation for being rather dull and uninteresting.
125. His words provided some comic relief in what was really a dull speech.
126. She felt a dull flush of anger creeping into her face.
127. The ponderous reporting style makes the evening news dull viewing.
128. The chairman leavened the dull meeting with a few jokes.
129. Tropical colours may look rather harsh in our dull northern light.
130. Dancing is a dull business,I've never learned to enjoy it.
131. They seek strong sensations to dull their sense of a meaningless existence.
132. There were one or two passably funny jokes but it was mostly dull.
133. There was little to quicken the pulse in his dull routine.
134. These houses look exactly like each other, which makes the street look very dull.
135. The town is still trying to cast off its dull image.
136. The body's natural rhythms mean we all feel dull and sleepy between 1 and 3pm.
137. He used to make extremely dull, turgid and frankly boring speeches.
138. Perhaps his nerve is naturally too dull to admit of any excitation.
139. The village itself is pretty, but the surrounding countryside is rather dull.
140. The book I've been reading is as dull as ditchwater, it has no story or any interest at all.
141. Poems which had seemed dull and boring suddenly came to life.
142. The party was so dull that it switched him off.
143. The table had a shiny surface, but underneath it was dull and rough.
144. There was a dull red glow in the night sky above the steelworks. Sentencedict.com
145. The silk cushions add colour to an otherwise dull room.
146. Although the subject-matter was rather dull her witty delivery kept the audience interested.
147. The food was dull and uninteresting. It is more common to use a different word such as dull or boring.
148. The book has some interesting passages about the author's childhood. For the rest, it is extremely dull.
149. The party would make a pleasant diversion in his rather dull social life.
150. I heard a dull thud from the kitchen and realized she must have fainted.
More similar words: adult, schedule, indulge, adultery, modulate, undulant, credulous, pendulum, undulate, on schedule, incredulity, incredulous, indulgent, modulated, adulation, indulgence, fraudulent, adulterate, incredulously, fraudulence, bull, full, mull, pull, Bull., behind schedule, fully, bully, skull, bullet.