DULL — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
dull
Make less lively or vigorous.
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- Middle age dulled her appetite for travel.
Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness.
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- The varnished table top dulled with time.
Become less interesting or attractive.
Make dull in appearance.
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- Age had dulled the surface.
Make dull or blunt.
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- Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge.
Make numb or insensitive.
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- The shock numbed her senses.
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.
(of business) not active or brisk.
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- Business is dull (or slow).
- A sluggish market.
Emitting or reflecting very little light.
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- A dull glow.
- Dull silver badly in need of a polish.
- A dull sky.
(of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted.
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- Dull greens and blues.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
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- 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 mak.
Darkened with overcast.
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- A dark day.
- A dull sky.
- A gray rainy afternoon.
- Gray clouds.
- The sky was leaden and thick.
Not having a sharp edge or point.
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- The knife was too dull to be of any use.
Not keenly felt.
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- A dull throbbing.
- Dull pain.
Lacking in liveliness or animation.
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- 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.
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.
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- 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.
Being or made softer or less loud or clear.
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- The dull boom of distant breaking waves.
- Muffled drums.
- The muffled noises of the street.
- Muted trumpets.
Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft.
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- The dull thud.
- Thudding bullets.
Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility.
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- A dull gaze.
- So exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather.
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