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dull

Definition for dull

adjective as in unintelligent

Strongest matches

boring, dim, dumb, simple, slow, sluggish, stupid

Strong matches

addled, low, shallow

Weak matches

backward, besotted, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim-witted, doltish, feeble-minded, half-baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse, scatterbrained, simple-minded, stolid, thick, unintellectual, vacuous, wearisome, witless

adjective as in insensitive

Strongest matches

boring, flat, lifeless, listless, placid, quiet, slow, sluggish

Strong matches

accustomed, blank, callous, depressed, empty, even, slack, still

Weak matches

apathetic, colorless, dead, heavy, impassible, inactive, indifferent, inert, insensible, jejune, languid, lumpy, monotonous, passionless, prosaic, regular, routine, spiritless, stagnant, stolid, torpid, unexciting, unresponsive, unsympathetic, usual, vacuous

adjective as in boring, uninteresting

Strongest matches

dismal, dreary, dry, flat, humdrum, ordinary, repetitive, stale, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, uninspiring

Strong matches

abused, driveling, plain, stock, tired

Weak matches

archaic, arid, big yawn, blah, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, familiar, hackneyed, heavy, ho-hum, hoary, insipid, jejune, longwinded, mid, monotonous, oft-repeated, out-of-date, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, trite, unimaginative, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn-out

adjective as in not sharp

Strongest match

Strong matches

blunt, blunted, round, square

Weak matches

edentate, edentulate, edgeless, not keen, obtuse, pointless, toothless, unpointed, unsharpened

adjective as in uneventful

Strongest matches

boring, flat, lifeless, listless, placid, quiet, slow, sluggish, tight

Strong matches

accustomed, depressed, even, slack, still, yawn

Weak matches

apathetic, blah, dead, draggy, falling-off, inactive, inert, languid, monotonous, regular, routine, sitting tight, slothful, stagnant, stolid, torpid, unexciting, unresponsive, usual, without incident

adjective as in drab, lackluster in effect on senses

Strongest matches

cloudy, cold, dark, dim, dismal, flat, hazy, lifeless, muddy, muted, obscure, soft, somber, subdued

Strong matches

black, blind, dun, faded, low, matte, muffled, overcast, plain, sober, softened

Weak matches

ashen, colorless, dead, dingy, dusky, feeble, grimy, indistinct, leaden, mousy, murky, opaque, shadowy, sooty, subfusc, toned-down, unlit

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Example Sentences

He picked one off the ground and cut off a slice to reveal the inside: dry and dull green.

From Los Angeles Times

The worthy effort to emphasize that much of the artist’s inventive genius — unfurling in thousands of manuscript pages, rather than oil paint and tempera — makes the dull staging a perhaps unavoidable conceit.

From Los Angeles Times

But to us, it can appear as just a dull white or yellow.

From Salon

Far from all Londoners falling back on dull neutrals, Durran found red was “in the fashion ether at the time”; makeup designer Naomi Donne also goes crimson for Rita’s lipstick.

From Los Angeles Times

It is usually the duller yellowish birds which are spotted in the UK, having been swept off course by storms as they migrate south in the autumn, the website said.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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