Dull
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Insensible; unfeeling.
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
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.
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
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.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
To become dull or stupid.
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Dull Quotations
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
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.
Oprah Winfrey
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein
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.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin
Dull Translations
dull in Dutch is onnozel, dom, flauw, simpel
dull in French is terne, fade, obtus
dull in Italian is appannato, insipido
dull in Latin is bardus, stolidus, piger pigra pigrum
dull in Spanish is embotado, lasto, soso
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