Definition of Dullness

Dullness

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.

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Being, Bluntness, Brightness, Dimness, Drowsiness, Dull, Heaviness, Luster, Obtuseness, Of, Or, Slowness, State, Stupidity, The, Want

Dullness Quotations

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot

The devil's name is dullness.
Robert E. Lee

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
Burl Ives

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote

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Dullness Translations

dullness in German is Unlust
dullness in Spanish is estupidez

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