Definition of dull

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• dull is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 5
• dull is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 5
• dull is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8

Definition of dull

• darkened with overcast (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a dull sky

  Synonyms

  1. leaden
• make numb or insensitive (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. benumb
  2. blunt
  3. numb
• become less interesting or attractive (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. pall
• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a dull play
  2. his competent but dull performance

  Synonyms

  1. boring
  2. deadening
  3. ho-hum
  4. irksome
  5. slow
  6. tedious
  7. tiresome
  8. wearisome
• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity (adjective)

  Examples

  1. although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick

  Synonyms

  1. dense
  2. dim
  3. dumb
  4. obtuse
  5. slow
• being or made softer or less loud or clear (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the dull boom of distant breaking waves

  Synonyms

  1. muffled
  2. muted
  3. softened
• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. damp
  2. dampen
  3. muffle
  4. mute
  5. tone down
• not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the dull thud

  Synonyms

  1. thudding
• make dull or blunt (verb)

  Examples

  1. Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge

  Synonyms

  1. blunt
• (of business) not active or brisk (adjective)

  Examples

  1. business is dull (or slow)

  Synonyms

  1. slow
  2. sluggish
• become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness (verb)

  Examples

  1. the varnished table top dulled with time
• blunted in responsiveness or sensibility (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a dull gaze
  2. so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her
• emitting or reflecting very little light (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a dull glow
  2. dull silver badly in need of a polish
  3. a dull sky
• lacking in liveliness or animation (adjective)

  Examples

  1. he was so dull at parties
  2. a dull political campaign
  3. a large dull impassive man
  4. dull days with nothing to do
  5. how dull and dreary the world is
  6. fell back into one of her dull moods
• make dull in appearance (verb)

  Examples

  1. Age had dulled the surface
• make less lively or vigorous (verb)

  Examples

  1. Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
• not having a sharp edge or point (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the knife was too dull to be of any use
• not keenly felt (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a dull throbbing
  2. dull pain
• (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted (adjective)

  Examples

  1. dull greens and blues

See definition of dull in Merriam Webster