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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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