stupid stupid person stupe dullard dolt pudding head pudden-head poor fish pillock | a person who is not very bright, The economy, stupid! |
dull | make less lively or vigorous, Middle age dulled her appetite for travel |
dull | become dull or lusterless in appearance, lose shine or brightness, the varnished table top dulled with time |
pall dull | become less interesting or attractive |
dull | make dull in appearance, Age had dulled the surface |
dull blunt | make dull or blunt, Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge |
numb benumb blunt dull | make numb or insensitive, The shock numbed her senses |
muffle mute dull damp dampen tone down | deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
dull slow sluggish | (of business) not active or brisk, business is dull (or slow), a sluggish market |
dull | emitting or reflecting very little light, a dull glow, dull silver badly in need of a polish, a dull sky |
dull-purple | of a dull shade of purple |
dull-white | of a dull shade of white |
dull | (of color) very low in saturation, highly diluted, dull greens and blues |
dazed stunned stupefied stupid(p) | in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock, he had a dazed expression on his face, lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow, was stupid from fatigue |
stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity |
dense dim dull dumb obtuse slow | 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 |
dull leaden | darkened with overcast, a dark day, a dull sky, the sky was leaden and thick |
dull | not having a sharp edge or point, the knife was too dull to be of any use |
dull | not keenly felt, a dull throbbing, dull pain |
dull | 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 |
unintelligent stupid | lacking intelligence, a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers |
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow tedious tiresome wearisome | 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 |
dull muffled muted softened | 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 |
imbecile imbecilic idiotic | having a mental age of three to seven years |
dull thudding | not clear and resonant, sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft, the dull thud, thudding bullets |
crackbrained idiotic | insanely irresponsible, an idiotic idea |
dull | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility, a dull gaze, so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather |
absurd cockeyed derisory idiotic laughable ludicrous nonsensical preposterous ridiculous | incongruous,inviting ridicule, the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework, that's a cockeyed idea, ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer, a contribution so small as to be laughable, it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion, a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history, her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous |