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dull    音标拼音: [d'ʌl]
a. 钝的,无趣的,呆滞的,阴暗的
vt. 使迟钝,使阴暗,缓和
vi. 变迟钝,减少

钝的,无趣的,呆滞的,阴暗的使迟钝,使阴暗,缓和变迟钝,减少

dull
adj 1: 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" [ant: {lively}]
2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow";
"dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant:
{bright}]
3: 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" [synonym: {dull}, {muffled},
{muted}, {softened}]
4: 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"; "what an irksome task the writing of long
letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the
tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's
dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [synonym: {boring}, {deadening},
{dull}, {ho-hum}, {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {tiresome},
{wearisome}]
5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull
greens and blues"
6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant:
{sharp}]
7: 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 make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either
normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with
the slow students" [synonym: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb},
{obtuse}, {slow}]
8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [synonym: {dull}, {slow}, {sluggish}]
9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to
be of any use" [ant: {sharp}]
10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so
exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa
Cather
11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or
against something relatively soft; "the dull thud";
"thudding bullets" [synonym: {dull}, {thudding}]
12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky
was leaden and thick" [synonym: {dull}, {leaden}]
v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or
brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [synonym:
{muffle}, {mute}, {dull}, {damp}, {dampen}, {tone down}]
4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [synonym:
{numb}, {benumb}, {blunt}, {dull}]
5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[synonym: {dull}, {blunt}] [ant: {sharpen}]
6: become less interesting or attractive [synonym: {pall}, {dull}]
7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite
for travel"

Dull \Dull\, a. [Compar. {Duller}; superl. {Dullest}.] [AS. dol
foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to
wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf.
Gr. ? turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf.
{Dolt}, {Dwale}, {Dwell}, {Fraud}.]
1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension;
stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning."
--Thackeray.
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She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
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2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
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This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing. --Matt. xiii.
15.
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O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
--Spenser.
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3. Insensible; unfeeling.
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Think me not
So dull a devil to forget the loss
Of such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
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4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy
scythe is dull." --Herbert.
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5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
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6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
inert. "The dull earth." --Shak.
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow.
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7. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy;
depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation
or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
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Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.

Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
{Lifeless}.
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Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Duller}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dulling}.]
1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . .
dulled their swords." --Bacon.
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Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak.
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2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
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Those [drugs] she has
Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak.
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Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench.
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3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. "Dulls the
mirror." --Bacon.
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4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
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Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through
continuance. --Hooker.
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Dull \Dull\, v. i.
To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R.
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664 Moby Thesaurus words for "dull":
KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker-colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant,
abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless,
allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize,
anesthetized, apathetic, appease, arctic, arid, ascetic, ashen,
ashy, asleep, assuage, asthenic, attemper, attenuate, austere,
autistic, backward, bad, baffle, bald, banausic, bank the fire,
bare, barren, bate, bated, becloud, bedaze, bedim, beef-witted,
befog, benumb, benumbed, besot, betwixt and between, blah, blanch,
blank, blase, bleach, blear, blear-witted, bled white, blind,
bloodless, blue, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended,
blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, blurry,
bored, boring, bovine, brainless, broken-record, bromidic,
cadaverous, callous, candid, canescent, cast down, cataleptic,
catatonic, characterless, chasten, chicken, chill, chilly,
chloranemic, chloroform, cinereous, cinerous, cloddish, cloud,
clouded, cloudy, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
coldhearted, colorless, comatose, common, commonplace, constrain,
control, cool, cowardly, cramp, crass, cripple, cushion, damp,
damped, dampen, dampened, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled,
dappled-gray, dark, darken, de-emphasize, dead, deaden,
deaden the pain, deadened, deadly pale, deafen, deathly pale,
debilitate, debilitated, decolor, decolorize, dejected, dense,
depressed, depressing, desensitize, desensitized, detached,
devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish, dimmed, dingy, direct,
discolor, discolored, disedge, disinterested, dismal,
dispassionate, dispirited, doltish, dope, dopey, dormant,
dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downhearted, downplay, drab, draggy,
drain, drain of color, draw the teeth, drearisome, dreary,
drooping, droopy, drug, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull of mind,
dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted,
dulled, dullish, dumb, dun, duncical, dusty, earthbound, ease,
ease matters, edgeless, effete, elephantine, emotionally dead,
emotionless, empty, enervate, enervated, enfeeble, etherize,
etiolate, etiolated, even-tempered, everlasting, eviscerate,
exanimate, exhaust, exhausting, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
exsanguineous, extenuate, fade, faded, fagging, faint, faintish,
fair, fair to middling, faired, fairish, fallow, fat-witted,
fatiguing, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy,
foment, foul, frank, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, fume,
ghastly, give relief, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gone, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey,
griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, gross-headed, gruel,
gutless, haggard, half-witted, hard, hardened, harping, hazy,
heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, homely,
homespun, hopeless, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, icy, imbecile,
immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient,
imperturbable, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense,
inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indistinct, inert,
inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable, insensate,
insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, insouciant,
insusceptible, inured, invariable, irksome, iron-gray, jaded,
jejune, jog-trot, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lackadaisical,
lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lay, lay low, lay out,
lead-gray, leaden, lean, lenify, lessen, lethargic, lifeless,
lighten, limber, limp, listless, literal, livid, logy, long-winded,
low-spirited, lowering, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, lustless,
marrowless, mat, matter-of-fact, mealy, mediocre, medium, middling,
mitigate, moderate, modest, modulate, mollify, monotone,
monotonous, moribund, moronic, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
muddy, muffle, muffled, mull, mundane, murky, mute, muted,
namby-pamby, narcotize, natural, neat, nerveless, neutral,
nonchalant, nonemotional, nubilous, numb, numbed, numbing,
numskulled, obdurate, objective, obscure, obtund, obtundent,
obtuse, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, opaque, open, ordinary,
out of touch, overcast, overclouded, pad, pale, pale as death,
pale-faced, palliate, pallid, palsy, paralyze, passable,
passionless, passive, pasty, patient, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
pedestrian, peroxide, phlegmatic, pithless, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, play down, plodding, pluckless, poetryless,
pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, poultice, pour balm into,
pour oil on, powerless, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure,
put to sleep, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, relieve,
repress, resigned, respectable, restrain, retard, retund, rocky,
rounded, rubbery, rustic, sad, sallow, salve, sap, sapless, sated,
sedentary, self-absorbed, severe, shake, shake up, sickly, silver,
silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking,
simpleminded, sinewless, singsong, slack, slacken, slake,
slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, slow down,
slow-witted, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering,
smoothed, smother, smothered, so-so, sober, sober down, soft,
soft-pedal, soften, soften up, softened, solemn, somber, somnolent,
soothe, soporific, sordo, soulless, spare, spineless, spiritless,
spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, staid, standing, stark, static,
steady, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stifle, stifled,
stodgy, stoic, stolid, stone-colored, stop, straightforward,
strengthless, stuffy, stultified, stun, stupe, stupefied, stupefy,
stupid, subdue, subdued, subfusc, sunless, superficial, supine,
suppress, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tarnish, tasteless, taupe,
tedious, temper, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated,
thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickskulled, tiresome, tiring,
tolerable, tone down, toneless, torpid, treadmill, tune down, turn,
unadorned, unaffected, unaffectionate, unaroused, unbrace,
uncaring, uncolored, unconcerned, undermine, underplay,
undisturbable, unedged, unembellished, unemotional, uneventful,
unfanciful, unfeeling, unfelt, unflappable, unhardened, unideal,
unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
uninspired, uninterested, uninteresting, uninventive, unirritable,
unlively, unloving, unman, unnerve, unnerved, unnervous,
unoriginal, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpoetic, unpoetical,
unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unromantic, unromanticized,
unsharp, unsharpened, unstrengthen, unstring, unstrung,
unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvarnished, unvarying,
vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen,
weak, weaken, weakly, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced,
white, whiten, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary


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  • DULL中文 (简体)翻译:剑桥词典
    Many people use alcohol to dull their pain The medication dulled her senses There was no way to dull the noise of the bombardment My sight may have dulled, but my other senses are sharper
  • dull_百度百科
    形容词词义包括钝的、迟钝的、无趣的、呆滞的、阴暗的;名词作为人名,如 (罗、匈)杜尔、 (柬)杜、 (英)达尔;及物动词词义为使迟钝、使阴暗、缓和,不及物动词词义为减少、变迟钝。 常见短语搭配有dull black、dull color、dull sale等。
  • Dull - 搜索 词典
    5 Most people think of it, when they think of it at all, for it seems to have this reputation as dull, as a nice, quiet almost charming job 多数人 在 想到 这个 工作 的 时候 都 觉得 这 是 份 有些 呆板, 但是 舒服 、 安静 甚至 有些 迷人 的 工作。
  • DULL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    DULL definition: 1 not interesting or exciting in any way: 2 not clear, bright, or shiny: 3 (of weather, sky… Learn more
  • Dull什么意思?解析枯燥、迟钝、暗淡等6种核心含义与用法
    Dull 是一个英语多义词,其核心意象源于“钝的”,引申为“缺乏活力、刺激或锐度”。英式发音和美式发音均为 [dʌl]。它主要用作形容词,也可作动词,含义根据语境变化巨大。其基本含义可归纳为四类:①形容事物或人感觉无聊、沉闷;②形容人智力或反应迟钝;③形容光线、颜色等物理属性
  • “深入解析‘dull’一词的多重含义及其日常用法”_Dull_颜色_感觉
    这种用法可能稍微少见一些,但在艺术和设计中,我们会用“dull colors”来形容那些不鲜艳、比较暗淡的颜色。 比如说,很多人可能会喜欢鲜艳的红色或蓝色,而“dull colors”则指的是那些更为低调、内敛的色调,比如灰色、暗绿色等。
  • 欧路词典|英汉-汉英词典 dull是什么意思_dull的中文解释和发音_dull的翻译_dull怎么读
    解析 dull 指缺鲜明、吸引力或情趣而显得味、沉闷。 tedious 侧重指文章、演讲、演出等冗长味或环境等单调、沉闷,缺活力,使感到不舒服。 monotonous 指没有变化、重复单调。 dreary 侧重趣味,不活泼事或思想状态。
  • DULL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    dull, blunt, obtuse mean not sharp, keen, or acute dull suggests a lack or loss of keenness, zest, or pungency
  • 区别辨析foolish、silly、stupid、simple与dull - 英文之旅
    foolish、silly、stupid、simple与dull这些形容词都可表示“愚蠢的、笨的、傻的”之意。 foolish : 一般指人的无头脑、愚蠢,或缺乏常识与判断力,或指行动的愚蠢可笑。 That was a rather foolish thing to do 做那样的事可真是蠢。 She was afraid that she would look foolish if she refused





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