单词 | dull |
例句 | dull adjective 1.•a dull novel:uninteresting, boring, tedious, monotonous, unrelieved, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful | characterless, featureless, colorless, lifeless, insipid, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, jejune, flat, bland, dry, stale, tired, banal, lackluster, ho-hum, stodgy, dreary, humdrum, mundane | mind-numbing, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, dullsville. ANT interesting. 2.•a dull morning:overcast, cloudy, gloomy, dark, dismal, dreary, somber, gray, murky, sunless. ANT sunny, bright. 3.•dull colors:drab, dreary, somber, dark, subdued, muted, lackluster, faded, washed out, muddy, dingy. ANT bright. 4.•a dull sound:muffled, muted, quiet, soft, faint, indistinct | stifled, suppressed. ANT loud, resonant. 5.•the chisel became dull:blunt, unsharpened, edgeless, worn down. ANT sharp. 6.•a rather dull child:unintelligent, stupid, slow, witless, vacuous, empty-headed, stunned, brainless, mindless, foolish, idiotic | informal dense, dim, moronic, halfwitted, thick, dumb, dopey, dozy, bovine, slow on the uptake, wooden-headed, fat-headed. ANT clever. 7.•her cold made her feel dull:sluggish, lethargic, enervated, listless, languid, torpid, slow, sleepy, drowsy, weary, tired, fatigued | apathetic | informal dozy, dopey, yawny, logy. ANT lively.▶verb 1.•the pain was dulled by drugs:lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, dampen, blunt, deaden, allay, ease, soothe, assuage, alleviate. ANT intensify. 2.•sleep dulled her mind:numb, benumb, deaden, desensitize, stupefy, daze. ANT enliven. 3.•rain dulled the sky:darken, blacken, dim, veil, obscure, shadow, fog. ANT brighten. 4.•the somber atmosphere dulled her spirit:dampen, lower, depress, crush, sap, extinguish, smother, stifle. ANT raise, brighten.CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See |
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