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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dead, familiar, hackneyed, heavy, ho-hum, hoary, insipid, jejune, longwinded, mid, monotonous, oft-repeated, out-of-date, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, trite, unimaginative, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn-out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
But politicians specialise in storytelling - and Westminster would be much duller without it.
Reduced pressure on the urinary sphincter is one of the many sensations dulled by living in microgravity, along with smell, taste and sight.
He picked one off the ground and cut off a slice to reveal the inside: dry and dull green.
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.
But to us, it can appear as just a dull white or yellow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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