Meaning (1):
- make dull in appearance
Example in sentence:- Age had dulled the surface
Meaning (2):
- make less lively or vigorous
Example in sentence:- Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
Meaning (3):
- make numb or insensitive
Example in sentence:- The shock numbed her senses
Meaning (4):
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
Example in sentence:- the varnished table top dulled with time
Meaning (5):
- make dull or blunt
Example in sentence:- Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
Meaning (6):
- emitting or reflecting very little light
Example in sentence:- a dull glow;
- a dull sky;
- dull silver badly in need of a polish
Meaning (7):
- lacking in liveliness or animation
Example in sentence:- a dull political campaign;
- a large dull impassive man;
- dull days with nothing to do;
- fell back into one of her dull moods;
- he was so dull at parties;
- how dull and dreary the world is
Meaning (8):
- not keenly felt
Example in sentence:- a dull throbbing;
- dull pain
Meaning (9):
- not having a sharp edge or point
Example in sentence:- the knife was too dull to be of any use
Meaning (10):
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
Example in sentence:- a boring evening with uninteresting people;
- a dull play;
- a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention;
- his competent but dull performance;
- other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome;
- tedious days on the train;
- the deadening effect of some routine tasks;
- the tiresome chirping of a cricket;
- what an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Meaning (11):
- darkened with overcast
Example in sentence:- a dark day;
- a dull sky;
- the sky was leaden and thick
Meaning (12):
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
Example in sentence:- a dull gaze;
- so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her
Meaning (13):
- (of business) not active or brisk
Example in sentence:- a sluggish market;
- business is dull (or slow)
Meaning (14):
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Example in sentence:- although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick;
- dumb officials make some really dumb decisions;
- he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse;
- never met anyone quite so dim;
- so dense he never understands anything I say to him;
- worked with the slow students
Meaning (15):
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
Meaning (16):
- being or made softer or less loud or clear
Example in sentence:- muffled drums;
- muted trumpets;
- the dull boom of distant breaking waves;
- the muffled noises of the street
Meaning (17):
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
Example in sentence:- the dull thud;
- thudding bullets
Definition
[ superl.]