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Sentences for Dull, Sentences with Dull Meaning and Synonym Words

dull

Meanings;

Make or become dull or less intense.(verb)
Lacking interest or excitement.(adjective)
Lacking brightness, vividness, or sheen.(adjective)

Synonyms

lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, dampen, depress, take the edge off, blunt, deaden, mute, soften, tone down, allay, ease, soothe, assuage, alleviate, palliate, moderate, mitigate, uninteresting, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dry, dry as dust, flat, bland, characterless, featureless, colourless, monotonous, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, lacking variety, lacking variation, lacking excitement, lacking interest, unimaginative, uneventful, lifeless, soulless, insipid, drab, dreary, sombre, dark, subdued, muted, toned down, lacklustre, lustreless, colourless, faded, washed out, muddy, watery, pale, unintelligent, stupid, slow, dull-witted, slow-witted, witless, doltish, dunce-like, stolid, vacuous, empty-headed, brainless, mindless, foolish, half-witted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, cretinous, obtuse,

Example Sentences with dull

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.
The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I can’t write with this dull pencil.
This knife is dull.
I feel a dull ache in the shoulder.
The conference was deadly dull.
My sister found the movie very dull.
She found it dull living in the country.
Such a person is seldom dull.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.