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dull
adjective as in unintelligent
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
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
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dead, familiar, hackneyed, heavy, ho-hum, hoary, insipid, jejune, longwinded, mid, monotonous, oft-repeated, out-of-date, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, trite, unimaginative, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn-out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
adjective as in uneventful
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
Example Sentences
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.
Seems like it might dull your knife.
It is mild for the time of year but it has typically been dull, grey and misty.
After an expensive and acrimonious primary battle among Democrats, the general election race for the seat was sleepy, bordering on dull.
It worked a treat in a deadly dull first half but lost its impact as Liverpool ran riot once they had broken Bayer Leverkusen's resistance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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