• make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age Dulled her appetite for travel"
• become Dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top Dulled with time"
• become less interesting or attractive
• make Dull in appearance; "Age had Dulled the surface"
• make Dull or blunt; "Too much cutting Dulls the knife''s edge"
• make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
• (of business) not active or brisk; "business is Dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
• emitting or reflecting very little light; "a Dull glow"; "Dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a Dull sky"
• (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "Dull greens and blues"
• 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 mak
• darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a Dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
• not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too Dull to be of any use"
• not keenly felt; "a Dull throbbing"; "Dull pain"
• 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"
• 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";
• 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"
• not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the Dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
• blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a Dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was Dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather

'Dull' in other languages