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dulled

/duhl/US // dʌl //UK // (dʌl) //

黯淡无光,钝化的,钝化,黯淡的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    dull·er, dull·est.

    • : not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
    • : causing boredom; tedious; uninteresting: a dull sermon.
    • : not lively or spirited; listless.
    • : not bright, intense, or clear; dim: a dull day; a dull sound.
    • : having very little depth of color; lacking in richness or intensity of color.
    • : slow in motion or action; not brisk; sluggish: a dull day in the stock market.
    • : mentally slow; lacking brightness of mind; somewhat stupid; obtuse.
    • : lacking keenness of perception in the senses or feelings; insensible; unfeeling.
    • : not intense or acute: a dull pain.
  1. 1
    • : to make or become dull.

Phrases

  • dull as dishwater
  • never a dull moment

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Both are real questions high-schoolers face at this point in their lives, but that doesn’t amount to engaging conflict here thanks to a dull screenplay.

  • Finally, Winceworth finds his labor to be so dull that he creates fake words and sneaks them into Swansby’s Dictionary.

  • A dull village life might have prompted our ancestors to explore what might be across that river, or perhaps to try a new berry they found in the woods.

  • Place the shiny side next to your body, as the dull silver side reflects only 65 percent of radiated heat.

  • Long gone are the days of dead batteries, dull blades, and desperate trips to the barber.

  • But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat.

  • The work at Art Basel is often interesting, often dull, and disproportionately decorative in nature.

  • His course managed to be both dreadfully dull and appallingly difficult, with few light moments.

  • I was quoted in The New York Times saying, ‘We dared to be dull’.

  • According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

  • Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

  • It'll be beastly dull for her at The Warren, you see, poor girl; and she doesn't seem to jump at Spunyarn, though he does hang on.

  • They are grayish or colorless, and have a dull waxy look, as if cut from paraffin (Figs. 43 and 61).

  • There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.