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. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

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. primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"

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. belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"

adj. out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

adj. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

adj. characteristic of former times especially in Europe; "an old-world cottage"

adj. not brought up to date

adj. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria