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Definisjon av Dull

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Verb
dull - make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
cloud make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
dull - make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
blunt
sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened"
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"
dull - become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
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"
dull - make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
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"
Dull - deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down
soften become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"
Dull - become less interesting or attractive
pall, dull
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"
Dull - make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
numb, benumb, blunt, dull
desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him"

Adjective
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"
lively filled with events or activity; "a lively period in history"
colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful
spiritless lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism"
unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull
dullness without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
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
bovine dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
dreary, drab lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
leaden, heavy (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
humdrum, monotonous tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
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"
unpolished not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes"
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"
mat, matt, matte, matted, flat tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth"
lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
dull - not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"
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"
blunt devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
blunted, dulled made dull or blunt
edgeless lacking a cutting edge
dull - (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
slow, sluggish
inactive not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"
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"
dull - not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"
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"
dull - (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"
unsaturated (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted; "an unsaturated red"
dull - darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
leaden
cloudy (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
dull - blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
insensitive not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"
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"
muffled, muted, softened
dull - not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
thudding
Dull - slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Dull - so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
uninteresting characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
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Verb
Dull - To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
Dull - To soften, moderate or blunt.
Dull - To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.

Adjektiv
Dull - Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
Dull - Boring; not exciting or interesting.
Dull - Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster.
Dull - Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.

OmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • Dull
    Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  • Dull
    Lacking in intelligence.
  • Dull
    Causing boredom.
  • Dull
    To reduce the intensity of a sound.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: dull
  • Komparativ: duller / more dull
  • Superlativ: dullest / most dull

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) dull
  • Presens: dull / dulls
  • Preteritum: dulled
  • Perfektum: (have) dulled

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