dull
adjective
[ dʌl ]
• lacking interest or excitement.
• "your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring"
Similar:
uninteresting,
boring,
tedious,
tiresome,
wearisome,
dry,
dry as dust,
flat,
bland,
characterless,
featureless,
colourless,
monotonous,
unexciting,
uninspiring,
unstimulating,
lacking variety,
lacking variation,
lacking excitement,
lacking interest,
unimaginative,
uneventful,
lifeless,
soulless,
insipid,
unoriginal,
derivative,
commonplace,
prosaic,
run-of-the-mill,
humdrum,
unremarkable,
banal,
lame,
plodding,
ponderous,
pedestrian,
dull as dishwater,
deadly,
no great shakes,
not up to much,
dreich,
dullsville,
ornery,
• lacking brightness, vividness, or sheen.
• "his face glowed in the dull lamplight"
Similar:
drab,
dreary,
sombre,
dark,
subdued,
muted,
toned down,
lacklustre,
lustreless,
colourless,
faded,
washed out,
muddy,
watery,
pale,
subfusc,
• (of a person) slow to understand; stupid.
• "the voice of a teacher talking to a rather dull child"
Similar:
unintelligent,
stupid,
slow,
dull-witted,
slow-witted,
witless,
doltish,
dunce-like,
stolid,
vacuous,
empty-headed,
brainless,
mindless,
foolish,
half-witted,
idiotic,
moronic,
imbecilic,
cretinous,
obtuse,
dense,
dim,
dim-witted,
thick,
dumb,
dopey,
dozy,
lamebrained,
pig-ignorant,
bovine,
slow on the uptake,
soft in the head,
brain-dead,
boneheaded,
chuckleheaded,
dunderheaded,
wooden-headed,
fat-headed,
muttonheaded,
daft,
not the full shilling,
thick as two short planks,
dumb-ass,
dull
verb
• make or become dull or less intense.
• "time dulls the memory"
Similar:
lessen,
decrease,
diminish,
reduce,
dampen,
depress,
take the edge off,
blunt,
deaden,
mute,
soften,
tone down,
allay,
ease,
soothe,
assuage,
alleviate,
palliate,
moderate,
mitigate,
numb,
benumb,
desensitize,
render insensitive,
stupefy,
daze,
stun,
drug,
sedate,
tranquillize,
narcotize,
torpefy,
obtund,
fade,
pale,
bleach,
wash out,
decolorize,
decolour,
dim,
etiolate,
darken,
blacken,
blur,
veil,
obscure,
shadow,
fog,
bedim,
put a damper on,
cast a pall over,
cast down,
lower,
crush,
shake,
sap,
suppress,
extinguish,
smother,
stifle,
Origin:
Old English dol ‘stupid’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dol ‘crazy’ and German toll ‘mad, fantastic, wonderful’.
