| Main Entry: | dulled |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worn-out |
Synonyms: |
exhausted, jaded, sated |
Antonyms: |
brightened, fresh |
| Main Entry: | abate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lessen, grow or cause to grow less |
Synonyms: |
allay, chill out, coast*, cool, cool it, decline, decrease, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, go with the flow, hang easy, hang loose, lay back, let go, let it all hang out, let up, mellow out, moderate, quell, recede, reduce, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, take it easy, taper, taper off, unlax, wane |
Antonyms: |
amplify, enhance, enlarge, extend, increase, intensify, magnify, prolong, revive, rise |
| Main Entry: | blunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not sharp |
Synonyms: |
dull, dulled, edgeless, insensitive, obtuse, pointless, round, rounded, unsharpened |
Antonyms: |
needled, pointed, sharp |
| Main Entry: | dampen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spoil spirits |
Synonyms: |
allay, check, chill, cloud, cool, curb, dash, deaden, deject, depress, diminish, discourage, dismay, dispirit, dull, humble, inhibit, moderate, muffle, mute, restrain, stifle |
Antonyms: |
brighten, encourage, hearten, inspirit, uplift |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
Synonyms: |
KO, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken |
Antonyms: |
animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | depress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deject, make despondent; exhaust |
Synonyms: |
abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, beat down, bother, bug*, bum out, cast down, chill*, cow*, damp, dampen, darken, daunt, debase, debilitate, degrade, desolate, devitalize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, distress, disturb, drag*, drain, dull, enervate, faze, keep under, lower, mock, mortify, oppress, perturb, press, put down*, reduce, reduce to tears, run down, sadden, sap*, scorn, slow, throw cold water on, torment, trouble, try, turn one off, upset, weaken, weary, weigh down |
Antonyms: |
cheer, comfort, encourage, excite, lift, make happy, stimulate |
| Main Entry: | dim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | darken; obscure |
Synonyms: |
becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blur, cloud, dull, eclipse, fade, fog, haze, lower, muddy, obfuscate, pale, tarnish, turn down |
Antonyms: |
brighten, lighten |
| Main Entry: | fade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose color |
Synonyms: |
achromatize, become colorless, blanch, bleach, blench, clear, decolorize, dim, disappear, discolor, dissolve, dull, etiolate, evanish, evaporate, grow dim, lose brightness, lose luster, muddy, neutralize, pale, tarnish, tone down, vanish, wash out |
Antonyms: |
brighten, color, sharpen, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | harden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accustom |
Synonyms: |
acclimate, acclimatize, adapt, adjust, blunt, brutalize, callous, callus, case-harden, climatize, coarsen, conform, deaden, develop, discipline, dull, embitter, habituate, indurate, inure, make callous, numb, paralyze, render insensitive, roughen, season, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stun, stupefy, teach, train |
Antonyms: |
be intolerant, indulge, spoil |
| Main Entry: | jaded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, indifferent |
Synonyms: |
been around, blah*, blasé, bored, cool*, done it all, dulled, fagged, fatigued, fed up*, had it, mellow, sated, satiated, sick of, spent, surfeited, tired, tired-out, up to here, wearied, weary, worn, worn-down, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
fresh, unused |