Dull

adjective 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'

adjective 2. emitting or reflecting very little light; 'a dull glow'; 'dull silver badly in need of a polish'; 'a dull sky'

adjective 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'

adjective 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'

adjective 5. (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; 'dull greens and blues'

adjective 6. not keenly felt; 'a dull throbbing'; 'dull pain'

adjective 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'

adjective 8. (of business) not active or brisk; 'business is dull (or slow)'; 'a sluggish market'

adjective 9. not having a sharp edge or point; 'the knife was too dull to be of any use'

adjective 10. blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; 'a dull gaze'; 'so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her'- Willa Cather

adjective 11. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; 'the dull thud'; 'thudding bullets'

adjective 12. darkened with overcast; 'a dark day'; 'a dull sky'; 'the sky was leaden and thick'

verb 1. make dull in appearance; 'Age had dulled the surface'

verb 2. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; 'the varnished table top dulled with time'

verb 3. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

verb 4. make numb or insensitive; 'The shock numbed her senses'

verb 5. make dull or blunt; 'Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge'

verb 6. become less interesting or attractive

verb 7. make less lively or vigorous; 'Middle age dulled her appetite for travel'