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dull - make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" |
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weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
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cloud make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
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dull - make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" |
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blunt |
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sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened"
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modify,
alter,
change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage"
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dull - become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" |
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change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
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dull - make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" |
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modify,
alter,
change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage"
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dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" |
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lively filled with events or activity; "a lively period in history"
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colorless,
colourless weak in color; not colorful
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spiritless lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism"
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unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull
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dullness without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
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desiccate,
arid,
desiccated lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
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bovine dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
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dreary,
drab lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
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leaden,
heavy (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
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humdrum,
monotonous tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
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lackluster,
lacklustre,
lusterless,
lustreless lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
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dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" |
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bright full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway"
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unpolished not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes"
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brightness level,
luminance,
luminosity,
luminousness,
brightness,
light the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun"
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mat,
matt,
matte,
matted,
flat tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth"
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lackluster,
lacklustre,
lusterless,
lustreless lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
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subdued,
soft quieted and brought under control; "children were subdued and silent"
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dull - not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" |
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sharp having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"
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blunt devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
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blunted,
dulled made dull or blunt
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edgeless lacking a cutting edge
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unsharpened not sharpened
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dull - (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" |
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slow,
sluggish |
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inactive not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"
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business enterprise,
commercial enterprise,
business the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
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dull - not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" |
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sharp having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"
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deadened made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
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dull - (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" |
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unsaturated (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted; "an unsaturated red"
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dull - darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" |
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leaden |
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cloudy (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
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dull - blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather |
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insensitive not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"
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dull - being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" |
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muffled,
muted,
softened |
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soft not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"
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dull - not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" |
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thudding |
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nonresonant,
unreverberant not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate
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