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Oxford American Dictionary
dull
- IPA[dəl]
美式
- adj.
  
  lacking interest or excitement；(of a person) feeling bored and dispirited
- v.
  
  make or become dull or less intense
- 釋義
- 片語
adj.
形容詞
1. lacking interest or excitement your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring 同義詞 uninteresting, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, ... 更多dry, dry as dust, flat, bland, characterless, featureless, colorless, monotonous, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, lacking variety, lacking variation, lacking excitement, lacking interest, unimaginative, uneventful, lifeless, soulless, insipid, unoriginal, derivative, commonplace, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, humdrum, unremarkable, banal, lame, plodding, ponderous, pedestrian, informaldull as dishwater, deadly, no great shakes, not up to much, dreich, dullsville, ornery反義詞 interesting
▪ archaic (of a person) feeling bored and dispirited she said she wouldn't be dull and lonely
2. lacking brightness, vividness, or sheen his face glowed in the dull lamplight his black hair looked dull 同義詞 drab, dreary, somber, dark, subdued, ... 更多muted, toned down, lackluster, lusterless, colorless, faded, washed out, muddy, watery, pale, literarysubfusc反義詞 bright
▪ (of the weather) overcast; gloomy next morning dawned dull 同義詞 overcast, cloudy, gloomy, dark, dim, ... 更多dismal, dreary, bleak, somber, gray, leaden, murky, sunless, louring, literarysubfusc反義詞 sunny, bright
▪ (of sound) not clear; muffled a dull thud of hooves 同義詞 muffled, muted, quiet, soft, softened, ... 更多faint, indistinct, stifled, smothered, suppressed反義詞 loud, resonant
▪ (of pain) indistinctly felt; not acute there was a dull pain in his lower jaw
▪ (of an edge or blade) blunt a lot more people are cut with dull knives than with sharp ones 同義詞 blunt, blunted, not sharp, unkeen, unsharpened, ... 更多dulled, edgeless, worn down反義詞 sharp
▪ (of activity) sluggish or slow-moving gold closed lower in dull trading 同義詞 slack, sluggish, flat, slow, slow-moving, ... 更多quiet, inactive, static, stagnant, depressed, sluggish, lethargic, enervated, unenergetic, listless, languid, torpid, inactive, inert, slow, slow-moving, sleepy, somnolent, drowsy, weary, tired, fatigued, heavy, apathetic, informaldozy, dopey, yawny, logy, asthenic, neurasthenic, archaiclymphatic反義詞 brisk, lively
3. (of a person) slow to understand; stupid the voice of a teacher talking to a rather dull child 同義詞 unintelligent, stupid, slow, dull-witted, slow-witted, ... 更多witless, doltish, dunce-like, stolid, vacuous, empty-headed, brainless, mindless, foolish, halfwitted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, cretinous, obtuse, informaldense, dim, dimwitted, thick, dumb, dopey, dozy, lamebrained, pig-ignorant, bovine, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, boneheaded, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, fat-headed, muttonheaded, daft, not the full shilling, thick as two short planks, vulgar slangdumb-ass反義詞 clever
▪ archaic (of a person's senses) not perceiving things distinctly; insensitive.
v.
動詞
1. make or become dull or less intense time dulls the memory Albert's eyes dulled a little 同義詞 lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, dampen, ... 更多depress, take the edge off, blunt, deaden, mute, soften, tone down, allay, ease, soothe, assuage, alleviate, palliate, moderate, mitigate, numb, benumb, deaden, desensitize, render insensitive, stupefy, daze, stun, drug, sedate, tranquillize, narcotize, raretorpefy, obtund, fade, pale, bleach, wash out, decolorize, decolor, dim, etiolate, darken, blacken, dim, blur, veil, obscure, shadow, fog, literarybedim, dampen, put a damper on, cast a pall over, cast down, lower, depress, crush, shake, sap, suppress, extinguish, smother, stifle反義詞 intensify, enliven, enhance, brighten, brighten, ... 更多raise
片語
as dull as dishwater
dull the edge of