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dull

Definition for dull

adjective as in not sharp

adjective as in drab, lackluster in effect on senses

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Example Sentences

But politicians specialise in storytelling - and Westminster would be much duller without it.

From BBC

Reduced pressure on the urinary sphincter is one of the many sensations dulled by living in microgravity, along with smell, taste and sight.

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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

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