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dull    音标拼音: [d'ʌl]
a. 钝的,无趣的,呆滞的,阴暗的
vt. 使迟钝,使阴暗,缓和
vi. 变迟钝,减少

钝的,无趣的,呆滞的,阴暗的使迟钝,使阴暗,缓和变迟钝,减少

dull
adj 1: 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" [ant: {lively}]
2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow";
"dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant:
{bright}]
3: 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" [synonym: {dull}, {muffled},
{muted}, {softened}]
4: 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"; "what an irksome task the writing of long
letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the
tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's
dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [synonym: {boring}, {deadening},
{dull}, {ho-hum}, {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {tiresome},
{wearisome}]
5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull
greens and blues"
6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant:
{sharp}]
7: 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 make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either
normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with
the slow students" [synonym: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb},
{obtuse}, {slow}]
8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [synonym: {dull}, {slow}, {sluggish}]
9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to
be of any use" [ant: {sharp}]
10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so
exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa
Cather
11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or
against something relatively soft; "the dull thud";
"thudding bullets" [synonym: {dull}, {thudding}]
12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky
was leaden and thick" [synonym: {dull}, {leaden}]
v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or
brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [synonym:
{muffle}, {mute}, {dull}, {damp}, {dampen}, {tone down}]
4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [synonym:
{numb}, {benumb}, {blunt}, {dull}]
5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[synonym: {dull}, {blunt}] [ant: {sharpen}]
6: become less interesting or attractive [synonym: {pall}, {dull}]
7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite
for travel"

Dull \Dull\, a. [Compar. {Duller}; superl. {Dullest}.] [AS. dol
foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to
wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf.
Gr. ? turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf.
{Dolt}, {Dwale}, {Dwell}, {Fraud}.]
1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension;
stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning."
--Thackeray.
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She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
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2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
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This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing. --Matt. xiii.
15.
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O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
--Spenser.
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3. Insensible; unfeeling.
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Think me not
So dull a devil to forget the loss
Of such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
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4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy
scythe is dull." --Herbert.
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5. 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.
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6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
inert. "The dull earth." --Shak.
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow.
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7. 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.
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Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.

Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
{Lifeless}.
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Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Duller}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dulling}.]
1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . .
dulled their swords." --Bacon.
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Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak.
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2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
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Those [drugs] she has
Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak.
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Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench.
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3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. "Dulls the
mirror." --Bacon.
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4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
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Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through
continuance. --Hooker.
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Dull \Dull\, v. i.
To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R.
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664 Moby Thesaurus words for "dull":
KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker-colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant,
abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless,
allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize,
anesthetized, apathetic, appease, arctic, arid, ascetic, ashen,
ashy, asleep, assuage, asthenic, attemper, attenuate, austere,
autistic, backward, bad, baffle, bald, banausic, bank the fire,
bare, barren, bate, bated, becloud, bedaze, bedim, beef-witted,
befog, benumb, benumbed, besot, betwixt and between, blah, blanch,
blank, blase, bleach, blear, blear-witted, bled white, blind,
bloodless, blue, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended,
blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, blurry,
bored, boring, bovine, brainless, broken-record, bromidic,
cadaverous, callous, candid, canescent, cast down, cataleptic,
catatonic, characterless, chasten, chicken, chill, chilly,
chloranemic, chloroform, cinereous, cinerous, cloddish, cloud,
clouded, cloudy, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
coldhearted, colorless, comatose, common, commonplace, constrain,
control, cool, cowardly, cramp, crass, cripple, cushion, damp,
damped, dampen, dampened, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled,
dappled-gray, dark, darken, de-emphasize, dead, deaden,
deaden the pain, deadened, deadly pale, deafen, deathly pale,
debilitate, debilitated, decolor, decolorize, dejected, dense,
depressed, depressing, desensitize, desensitized, detached,
devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish, dimmed, dingy, direct,
discolor, discolored, disedge, disinterested, dismal,
dispassionate, dispirited, doltish, dope, dopey, dormant,
dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downhearted, downplay, drab, draggy,
drain, drain of color, draw the teeth, drearisome, dreary,
drooping, droopy, drug, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull of mind,
dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted,
dulled, dullish, dumb, dun, duncical, dusty, earthbound, ease,
ease matters, edgeless, effete, elephantine, emotionally dead,
emotionless, empty, enervate, enervated, enfeeble, etherize,
etiolate, etiolated, even-tempered, everlasting, eviscerate,
exanimate, exhaust, exhausting, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
exsanguineous, extenuate, fade, faded, fagging, faint, faintish,
fair, fair to middling, faired, fairish, fallow, fat-witted,
fatiguing, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy,
foment, foul, frank, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, fume,
ghastly, give relief, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gone, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey,
griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, gross-headed, gruel,
gutless, haggard, half-witted, hard, hardened, harping, hazy,
heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, homely,
homespun, hopeless, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, icy, imbecile,
immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient,
imperturbable, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense,
inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indistinct, inert,
inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable, insensate,
insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, insouciant,
insusceptible, inured, invariable, irksome, iron-gray, jaded,
jejune, jog-trot, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lackadaisical,
lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lay, lay low, lay out,
lead-gray, leaden, lean, lenify, lessen, lethargic, lifeless,
lighten, limber, limp, listless, literal, livid, logy, long-winded,
low-spirited, lowering, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, lustless,
marrowless, mat, matter-of-fact, mealy, mediocre, medium, middling,
mitigate, moderate, modest, modulate, mollify, monotone,
monotonous, moribund, moronic, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
muddy, muffle, muffled, mull, mundane, murky, mute, muted,
namby-pamby, narcotize, natural, neat, nerveless, neutral,
nonchalant, nonemotional, nubilous, numb, numbed, numbing,
numskulled, obdurate, objective, obscure, obtund, obtundent,
obtuse, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, opaque, open, ordinary,
out of touch, overcast, overclouded, pad, pale, pale as death,
pale-faced, palliate, pallid, palsy, paralyze, passable,
passionless, passive, pasty, patient, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
pedestrian, peroxide, phlegmatic, pithless, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, play down, plodding, pluckless, poetryless,
pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, poultice, pour balm into,
pour oil on, powerless, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure,
put to sleep, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, relieve,
repress, resigned, respectable, restrain, retard, retund, rocky,
rounded, rubbery, rustic, sad, sallow, salve, sap, sapless, sated,
sedentary, self-absorbed, severe, shake, shake up, sickly, silver,
silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking,
simpleminded, sinewless, singsong, slack, slacken, slake,
slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, slow down,
slow-witted, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering,
smoothed, smother, smothered, so-so, sober, sober down, soft,
soft-pedal, soften, soften up, softened, solemn, somber, somnolent,
soothe, soporific, sordo, soulless, spare, spineless, spiritless,
spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, staid, standing, stark, static,
steady, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stifle, stifled,
stodgy, stoic, stolid, stone-colored, stop, straightforward,
strengthless, stuffy, stultified, stun, stupe, stupefied, stupefy,
stupid, subdue, subdued, subfusc, sunless, superficial, supine,
suppress, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tarnish, tasteless, taupe,
tedious, temper, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated,
thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickskulled, tiresome, tiring,
tolerable, tone down, toneless, torpid, treadmill, tune down, turn,
unadorned, unaffected, unaffectionate, unaroused, unbrace,
uncaring, uncolored, unconcerned, undermine, underplay,
undisturbable, unedged, unembellished, unemotional, uneventful,
unfanciful, unfeeling, unfelt, unflappable, unhardened, unideal,
unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
uninspired, uninterested, uninteresting, uninventive, unirritable,
unlively, unloving, unman, unnerve, unnerved, unnervous,
unoriginal, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpoetic, unpoetical,
unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unromantic, unromanticized,
unsharp, unsharpened, unstrengthen, unstring, unstrung,
unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvarnished, unvarying,
vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen,
weak, weaken, weakly, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced,
white, whiten, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary


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  • DULL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    dull, blunt, obtuse mean not sharp, keen, or acute dull suggests a lack or loss of keenness, zest, or pungency
  • Dull - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    To dull something means to take away its edge, its energy, or its excitement "Watching that movie will dull your senses, until you fall asleep "
  • DULL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    DULL definition: 1 not interesting or exciting in any way: 2 not clear, bright, or shiny: 3 (of weather, sky… Learn more
  • DULL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Dull implies a lack or a loss of keenness or sharpness: a dull razor or saw Blunt may mean the same or may refer to an edge or point not intended to be keen or sharp: a blunt or stub pen; a blunt foil
  • Dick Dull - Wikipedia
    Richard Dull (1945 – January 6, 2026) was an American athletic director and athlete He served as the athletic director of the University of Maryland from 1981 to 1986, including during the death of Len Bias, which prompted Dull's resignation
  • Former Maryland AD Dick Dull Passes Away
    Dull passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 80 due to natural causes To most, Dull is known generally as one of the many victims of the fallout from the drug-related death of former Maryland basketball star Len Bias
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  • dull - English-Spanish Dictionary - WordReference. com
    Melina's dull responses led Marius to believe she did not care Las respuestas desganadas de Melina llevaron a Marius a creer que a ella le era indiferente With nothing to do, he grew dull and began to mope about Por no tener nada que hacer él empezó a estar desanimado y alicaído
  • Dull - definition of dull by The Free Dictionary
    These adjectives mean lacking in liveliness, charm, or surprise: a dull, uninteresting performance; a colorless and unimaginative person; a drab and boring job; a humdrum conversation; a lackluster life; a pedestrian movie plot; a stodgy dinner party; an uninspired lecture
  • dull - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    dull (third-person singular simple present dulls, present participle dulling, simple past and past participle dulled) (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp





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