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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
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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
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dismal, dreary, dry, flat, humdrum, ordinary, repetitive, stale, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, uninspiring
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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dead, familiar, hackneyed, heavy, ho-hum, hoary, insipid, jejune, longwinded, mid, monotonous, oft-repeated, out-of-date, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, routine, run-of-the-mill, soporific, trite, unimaginative, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn-out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
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Example Sentences
But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat.
The work at Art Basel is often interesting, often dull, and disproportionately decorative in nature.
His course managed to be both dreadfully dull and appallingly difficult, with few light moments.
I was quoted in The New York Times saying, ‘We dared to be dull’.
According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
It'll be beastly dull for her at The Warren, you see, poor girl; and she doesn't seem to jump at Spunyarn, though he does hang on.
They are grayish or colorless, and have a dull waxy look, as if cut from paraffin (Figs. 43 and 61).
There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.
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On this page you'll find 587 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dull, such as: boring, dim, dumb, simple, slow, and sluggish.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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