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 |
colored coloured dark dark-skinned non-white | having skin rich in melanin pigments, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, dark-skinned peoples |
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 |
peachy peachy-colored peachy-coloured | of something resembling a peach in color |
dull-white | of a dull shade of white |
dull | (of color) very low in saturation, highly diluted, dull greens and blues |
colored coloured colorful | having color or a certain color, sometimes used in combination, colored crepe paper, the film was in color, amber-colored heads of grain |
brightly-colored brightly-coloured | having a bright color |
buff-colored buff-coloured | having a buff color |
chestnut-colored chestnut-coloured | having the brown color of chestnuts |
chocolate-colored chocolate-coloured | having the color of dark chocolate |
cinnamon colored cinnamon coloured cinnamon-colored cinnamon-coloured | having the color of cinnamon |
dark-colored dark-coloured dusky-colored dusky-coloured | having a dark color |
dun-colored dun-coloured | having a dun color |
fawn-colored fawn-coloured | having the color of a fawn |
flame-colored flame-coloured | having the brilliant orange-red color of flames |
flesh-colored flesh-coloured | having a bright red or pinkish color |
garnet-colored garnet-coloured | having the color of garnet |
gold-colored gold-coloured | having the color of gold |
honey-colored honey-coloured | having the color of honey |
lead-colored lead-coloured | having the color of lead |
metal-colored metal-coloured metallic-colored metallic-coloured | having a metallic color |
s motley calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly, a jester dressed in motley, the painted desert, a particolored dress, a piebald horse, pied daisies |
neutral-colored neutral-coloured | having a color that does not attract attention |
olive-colored olive-coloured | having the color of green olives |
orange-colored orange-coloured orange-hued | having the color of ripe oranges |
straw-colored straw-coloured | having the color of dry straw |
tawny-colored tawny-coloured | having a tawny color |
violet-colored violet-coloured violet-flowered | having a violet color |
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 |
solid self-colored self-coloured | of the same color throughout, solid color |
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 |
bleached colored coloured dyed | (used of color) artificially produced, not natural, a bleached blonde |
biased colored coloured one-sided slanted | favoring one person or side over another, a biased account of the trial, a decision that was partial to the defendant |
solid-colored solid-coloured | having the same color all over |
dull thudding | not clear and resonant, sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft, the dull thud, thudding bullets |
dull | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility, a dull gaze, so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather |