v. make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"

v. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"

v. make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

v. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

v. become less interesting or attractive

v. make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

v. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

adj. not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"

adj. lacking in interest: "her drab personality"; "his competent but dull performance of the role"

adj. darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick"

adj. 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"

adj. 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"

adj. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

adj. 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"

adj. 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"

v. turn pale, as if in fear

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

v. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues"

v. make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

v. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"

v. provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"

v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

v. cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

v. supply or feed to surfeit

v. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"

v. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues"

v. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

v. make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

v. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"

v. disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"

v. cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"

v. make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

v. make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"

v. become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

adj. (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex

adj. unusually short; "a snub nose"

adj. curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"

adj. not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils are all pointless"

adj. 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"

adj. impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear; "an inaudible conversation"

adj. very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

adj. faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"

adj. weak in color; not colorful

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

adj. showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older"

adj. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; "a halfhearted effort"; "gave only lukewarm support to the candidate"

adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"

adj. dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"

adj. showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"

adj. having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair"

adj. hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"

adj. lacking mental capacity and subtlety

adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

adj. mentally deficient

adj. relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail"

adj. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"

adj. not using intelligence

adj. 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"

adj. retarded in intellectual development

adj. showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished"

adj. weak in color; not colorful

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

adj. experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

adj. infested with grubs

adj. filled or abounding with clouds

adj. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

adj. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

adj. 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"

adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

adj. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

adj. 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"

adj. retarded in intellectual development

adj. relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development; "providing a secure and sometimes happy life for the retarded"

adj. resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"

adj. not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

adj. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"

adj. not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"

adj. causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"

adj. serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope

adj. capable of arousing interest or curiosity; "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"

adj. stimulating interest and discussion; "an exciting novel"

adj. lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever"

adj. lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

adj. filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning"

adj. filled or abounding with clouds

adj. resembling a cloud

adj. darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

adj. filled with vapor; "miasmic jungles"; "a vaporous bog"

adj. clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog; "the smoggy atmosphere of Los Angeles"

adj. indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"

adj. having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh; "she was always soft-spoken"

adj. in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"

adj. very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf"

adj. making a low continuous indistinct sound; "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"

adj. characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren

adj. sound of quiet gentle steps

adj. 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"

adj. lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

adj. inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech"

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

adj. labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"

adj. (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining

adj. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

adj. (used informally) stupid

adj. heavy and dull and stupid

adj. (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality

adj. mentally sluggish

adj. (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

adj. 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"

adj. lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

adj. inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech"

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

adj. labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"

adj. (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining

v. give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

v. make sharp or sharper; "sharpen the knives"

v. sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone

v. make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

v. give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

v. cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"

adj. having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing; "a sharp knife"; "a pencil with a sharp point"

adj. extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"

adj. striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language"

adj. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining morning"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny"

adj. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining morning"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny"

adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"

adj. showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

adj. having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"

adj. arousing or holding the attention

adj. rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion"

adj. creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip"