| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Being foolish, fatuous, imbecilic, zany or silly.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being lazy, sluggish or indolent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being languid, listless, lethargic or torpid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being idiotic, stupid or daft. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being footling or goofy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being gawky, gauche, clumsy or impolitic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being lumpy or loutish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being coarse, gruff or rough. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being nonchalant or negligent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being tiresome or boring.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun | 1. One who, or that which, dulls.[Websters]
2. Signifies an entity that dulls, based on the verb dull.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb | 1. Of Dull.[Websters]. | |
| Adverb Base (dully) | 1. Without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully".[Wordnet]. 2. Without luster or shine; "the light shone dully through the haze"; "unpolished buttons glinted dully".[Wordnet]. 3. In a dull manner; stupidly; slowly; sluggishly; without life or spirit.[Websters]. 4. In a foolish, idiotic, wooden, moronic or weird manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a flat or tame manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a slack, lifeless or inactive manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a fat or insensate manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a dismal, sullen or gaunt manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a sad or leaden manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adverbial inflection of the adjective dull.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dull) | 1. Make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface".[Wordnet]. 2. Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time".[Wordnet]. 3. Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.[Wordnet]. 4. Make numb or insensitive.[Wordnet]. 5. Make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge".[Wordnet]. 6. Become less interesting or attractive.[Wordnet]. 7. Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel".[Wordnet]. 8. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.[Websters]. 9. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.[Websters]. 10. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.[Websters]. 11. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.[Websters]. 12. To become dull or stupid.[Websters]. 13. Base verb from the following inflections: dulling, dulled, dulls, duller, dullers, dullingly and dulledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DULLER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DULLER
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] That which makes dull.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Geography | 1: Duller is geographically located in Germany. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture). Its geographic coordinates are 47.7 degrees North latitude and 9.716667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 2: Duller is geographically located in Haiti. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 19.483333 degrees North latitude and 71.833333 degrees West longitude. (references) | |
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] Comparative form of dull: more dull. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: dull
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dull day gecko | Dull day gecko (Phelsuma dubia (Boettger, 1881)) is a diurnal species of geckos. It is about 15 cm in length and lives on the western coast of Madagascar, in the Comoros, and the coast of East Africa. It typically inhabits trees and can also be found near human dwellings. The Dull day gecko feeds on insects and nectar. (references) | ||
| Dull Knife Fight | The Dull Knife Fight was given its name from Chief Dull Knife, who led the Cheyenne warriors during the battle. (references) | ||
| Never a Dull Moment | Released in 1972, Never A Dull Moment went to No.2 on the U.S. Charts the same year. The track You Wear It Well was a smash hit, as well as Twistin' The Night Away, a song originally recorded by Sam Cooke. (references) | ||
| Upon the Dull Earth | Upon the Dull Earth is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. First published in November 1954 in Beyond Fantasy Fiction. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: dull
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dull as a Fro | Literature | 1: A frow or fro is a kind of wedge for splitting wood. It is not a sharp-edged instrument like a chisel, but a blunt or dull one. 2: Uninteresting; ditch-water is stagnant and has no go in it. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Dull attritus | Mining | A field term denoting the degree of luster of attrital coal as it compares to the brilliant luster of vitrain associated in the same locality. Cf: bright attritus. (references) | |
| Dull coal | Mining | A. Any coal that absorbs the greater part of incident light instead of reflecting it. Stopes recognizes two kinds of dull coal--durain and fusain b. The constituent of banded coal macroscopically somewhat grayish in color, of a dull appearance, less compact than bright coal, and breaking with a rather irregular fracture. It consists mainly of two kinds of material; thin black bands interlayed by a lighter colored granular-appearing matter. Microscopically, it consists of smaller anthraxylon constituents together with a few other constituents, such as cuticles and barklike constituents embedded in a general matrix, the attritus c. A variety of banded coal containing from 20% to 0% of pure, bright ingredients (vitrain, clarain, and fusain), the remainder consisting of clarodurain and durain. (references) | |
| Dull shoe repairer | Occupations | Removes color blemishes and fills in cracks or scratches on shoes: Applies prepared colors with cloth, hand spray, or crayon to obtain or restore specified color. Applies prepared filler, using cloth or hand spray, to fill cracks and scratches. May blend prepared pigments to match shoe color, using spatula. May cement or rub cut or nicked areas of shoe. May be designated according to type or color of shoe as Russet Repairer (boot & shoe). (references) | |
| Dull swift | Slang in 1811 | DULL SWIFT. A stupid, sluggish fellow, one long going on an errand. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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