Definition of Dull

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Definition of Dull

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

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

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Vance Havner

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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