dullness 的 2 个定义
dull·er, dull·est.
- not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- causing boredom; tedious; uninteresting: a dull sermon.
- not lively or spirited; listless.
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- to make or become dull.
dullness 近义词
quality of being boring
stupidity
由dullness构成的短语
- dull as dishwater
- never a dull moment
更多dullness例句
- It’s possible to do things that are dull and just take up too much time.
- Now it just sort of feels like a dull and expected subtext to, well, everything in our lives.
- That feeling only escalates as you navigate a confusing, and so-far dull, main story line.
- He even took on a process often dismissed as the dullest thing imaginable in his essay “Watching Paint Dry,” written for a Harvard undergraduate journal.
- As more chips accumulate, the edge can quickly dull, especially if the microscopic structure of the steel is not uniform.
- It is a potential firelighter of vanity, self-pity and logorrhoeic dullness.
- For the past forty years critic James Wolcott has been a cerebral antidote to the dullness contaminating our cultural pages.
- Once you're out of breath, you might be within earshot of what that phrase conjures up in the United Kingdom: dullness.
- Still, TV-show creators can appreciate the dullness in overthinking sex when the moment strikes—particularly after a certain age.
- Luckily for him, this is Washington, where dullness can be prized if it is effective.
- The dullness of that time has gone, and the roads are tolerably travelled to-day.
- The person whose mind is satisfied by the parlour dullness of that nightly foolery only becomes animated when he is indecent.
- It not only rewards dullness as if it were positive virtue, but sets an enormous premium upon hypocrisy.
- The ax was not sharp no army ax ever was, but Si's and Shorty's muscles were vigorous enough to make up for its dullness.
- Alone in her chamber, the dullness of her mind diminished and finally cleared away like a fog in a wind.