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eng: dull

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Meaning
means	(verb) make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" dull
means	(verb) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" dull
means	(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping damp, muffle, tone down, mute, dull, dampen
means	(verb) make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" benumb, blunt, numb, dull
means	(verb) make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" dull, blunt
means	(verb) become less interesting or attractive dull, pall
means	(verb) make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" dull
means	(adjective) 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" dull
means	(adjective) emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" dull
means	(adjective) 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" softened, muffled, muted, dull
means	(adjective) 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" slow, wearisome, ho-hum, boring, irksome, deadening, tiresome, dull, tedious
means	(adjective) (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" dull
means	(adjective) not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" dull
means	(adjective) 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" dumb, obtuse, dull, dense, slow, dim
means	(adjective) (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" slow, dull, sluggish
means	(adjective) not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" dull
means	(adjective) blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather dull
means	(adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" thudding, dull
means	(adjective) darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" leaden, dull

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