Meaning

11 senses
  1. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.

    All these knives are dull.

    stumpf

    тупо́йtupój

    тупи́йtupýj

  2. Boring; not exciting or interesting.

    He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.

    fad, langweilig

    ску́чныйskúčnyj

  3. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.

    Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.

    a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror

    matt, stumpf

    ту́склыйtúsklyj, ма́товыйmátovyj

  4. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.

    blöd, blöde, dumm

    тупо́йtupój, глу́пыйglúpyj

  5. Sluggish, listless.

  6. Bored, depressed, down.

    I felt dull all day.

  7. Cloudy, overcast.

    It's a dull day.

    trüb

    darkened with overcast

  8. Insensible; unfeeling.

  9. Heavy; lifeless; inert.

    c. 1857', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Table-Talk As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.

  10. Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.

    Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.

    not keenly felt

  11. Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)

Examples

148 sentences
  1. I can't write with this dull pencil.

    Я не можу писати цим непідточеним олівцем.

    ruЯ не могу писать этим тупым карандашом.

    deIch kann mit diesem stumpfen Bleistift nicht schreiben.

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  2. The point of the pencil has become dull.

    Олівець затупився.

    ruКарандаш затупился.

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  3. This knife is so dull that it can't cut.

    Цей ніж настільки тупий, що ним неможливо різати.

    ruЭтот нож такой тупой, что им нельзя резать.

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  4. The knife is dull.

    Ніж тупий.

    ruНож тупой.

    deDas Messer ist stumpf.

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  5. This knife is dull.

    Цей ніж тупий.

    ruЭтот нож тупой.

    deDieses Messer ist stumpf.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp:
Русский
By meaning 4
lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp:
boring, not exciting or interesting — see also boring, insipid, lame:
not shiny:
not bright or intelligent:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp:
boring, not exciting or interesting — see also boring, insipid, lame:
not shiny:
not bright or intelligent:
cloudy, overcast:

Origin

From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolis

From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”), from Proto-West Germanic *dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz, from earlier *dwulaz, a variant of *dwalaz (“stunned, mad, foolish, misled”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-, *dʰewel- (“to dim, dull, cloud, make obscure, swirl, whirl”).

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Forms

duller, dullest
Comparativeduller Lesson
Superlativedullest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

372 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

28 antonyms

Word family

18 related words

See also

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