duller in English

adjective

1

lacking interest or excitement.

your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

synonyms: uninteresting, boring, tedious, monotonous, unrelieved, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful, characterless, featureless, colorless, lifeless, insipid, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, uninvolving, jejune, flat, bland, dry, stale, tired, banal, lackluster, ho-hum, stodgy, dreary, humdrum, mundane, mind-numbing, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, dullsville

2

lacking brightness, vividness, or sheen.

his face glowed in the dull lamplight

synonyms: drab, dreary, somber, dark, subdued, muted, lackluster, faded, washed out, muddy, dingy

3

(of a person) slow to understand; stupid.

the voice of a teacher talking to a rather dull child

synonyms: unintelligent, stupid, slow, witless, vacuous, empty-headed, stunned, brainless, mindless, foolish, idiotic, dense, dim, moronic, halfwitted, thick, dumb, dopey, dozy, bovine, slow on the uptake, wooden-headed, fat-headed

adjective

uninteresting, boring, tedious, monotonous, unrelieved, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful, characterless, featureless, colorless, lifeless, insipid, unexciting, uninspiring, unstimulating, uninvolving, jejune, flat, bland, dry, stale, tired, banal, lackluster, ho-hum, stodgy, dreary, humdrum, mundane, mind-numbing, wearisome, tiring, tiresome, irksome, dullsville
overcast, cloudy, gloomy, dark, dismal, dreary, somber, gray, murky, sunless
drab, dreary, somber, dark, subdued, muted, lackluster, faded, washed out, muddy, dingy
muffled, muted, quiet, soft, faint, indistinct, stifled, suppressed
blunt, unsharpened, edgeless, worn down
unintelligent, stupid, slow, witless, vacuous, empty-headed, stunned, brainless, mindless, foolish, idiotic, dense, dim, moronic, halfwitted, thick, dumb, dopey, dozy, bovine, slow on the uptake, wooden-headed, fat-headed
sluggish, lethargic, enervated, listless, languid, torpid, slow, sleepy, drowsy, weary, tired, fatigued, apathetic, dozy, dopey, yawny, logy
boring, irksome, wearisome, deadening, tiresome, tedious, slow, ho-hum
sluggish, slow
dense, obtuse, dim, dumb, slow
thudding
leaden
muffled, softened, muted

Use "duller" in a sentence

1. Attritus is duller than vitrain and brighter than fusain.

2. Juveniles are much duller in colour than adult Bullfinches

3. Camphor tree leaves are glossy green above, and they are duller in color below

4. Claret wine definition is - a variable color averaging a dark red that is yellower and slightly duller than average wine, yellower and duller than cranberry, and yellower and less strong than average garnet.

5. If the religious lobby has its way, Sundays will certainly be duller for the heathen.

6. Its appearance is similar to the Gulf torpedo (Torpedo sinuspersici), but it is duller in coloration.

7. Where it overlaps with Brown-fronted Woodpecker, note Blotchier brown striping on the underparts, pale vent, and duller crown

8. These migrants can be recognised by the greyer tone of the upper parts of their bodies and duller orange breast.

9. Synonyms for Blunter include duller, obtuser, rounder, more rounded, more worn, more insensitive, more pointless, more unkeen, bluffer and franker

10. Azoic shades on nylon are comparatively duller compared to those on cotton; therefore, this process is mainly used for the production of black shades