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| S/D | sharp/dull; systolic/diastolic |
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| dull | 1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. "Dull at classical learning." "She is not bred so dull but she can learn." (Shak) 2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. "This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing." (Matt. Xiii. 15) "O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue." (Spenser) 3. Insensible; unfeeling. "Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife." (Beau. & Fl) 4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. "Thy scythe is dull." 5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of colour or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror. 6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. "The dull earth." "As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain." (Longfellow) 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. "Along life's dullest, dreariest walk." (Keble) Synonym: Lifeless, inanimate, dead, stupid, doltish, heavy, sluggish, sleepy, drowsy, gross, cheerless, tedious, irksome, dismal, dreary, clouded, tarnished, obtuse. See Lifeless. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dullness | Dulness The character of the sound obtained by percussing over a solid part incapable of resonating; usually applied to an area containing less air than those which can resonate. (05 Mar 2000) |
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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" emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" 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" boring: 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" (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" dense: 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" muffle: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" numb: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather pall: become less interesting or attractive not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a grey rainy afternoon"; "grey clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
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the quality of being slow to understand the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees" a lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea" lack of sensibility; "there was a dullness in his heart"; "without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it." without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
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Without sheen or gloss.
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unexciting and unimaginative
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Term for a numismatic item that lacks luster. Dulling may be the result of natural or artificial conditions.
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| dull | make less lively or vigorous |
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| dull | become dull or lusterless in appearance |
| dull | become less interesting or attractive |
| dull | make dull in appearance |
| dull | make dull or blunt, as of sharp edges or knives' blades |
| dull | make numb or insensitive |
| dull | deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping |
| dull | (of business) not active or brisk |
| dull | emitting or reflecting very little light |
| dull | (of color) very low in saturation |
| dull | slow to learn or understand |
| dull | darkened with overcast |
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