dull

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
2. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
3. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
4. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
5. Sluggish, listless.
6. Bored, depressed, down.
7. Cloudy, overcast.
8. Insensible; unfeeling.
9. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
10. Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
11. Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)

Verb

1. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
2. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
3. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
4. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

Conceptes

rom

esmussar

estúpid

nici

beneit

estult

gris

neci

pesat

toix

tediós

desllustrar

apagat

despuntar

espuntar

romejar

deslluir

curt

pallús

moix

☹️

aturat

monòton

taciturn

moderar

esmussat

deslluir-se

insuls

plomís

fat

avorrit

carregós

trencar-se

suavitzar

temperar

atenuar

gamarús

assuaujar

lent

apocat

apagar

obtús

assuavir

embrutir

sord

esmussar-se

adormir

Oposat a

sharp, bright, brainless, dumb, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, insensible, lowbrow, mindless, stupid, unintelligent, witless

Sinònims

blunt

stupid

boring

obtuse

slow

dim

foolish

tedious

uninteresting

sluggish

silly

insipid

flat

overcast

idiotic

gloomy

tiresome

slow-witted

dark

inactive

cloudy

☁️

pale

lifeless

dumb

lacklustre

wearisome

not sharp

dreary

dense

numb

heavy

languid

deaden

monotonous

weak

muffled

ignorant

vapid

colourless

drab

colourless

lackluster

unintelligent

faded

obscure

opaque

sullen

stagnant

tasteless

dim-witted

Traduccions

stumpf

émoussé

embotado

bot

matt

abstumpfen

obtus

ennuyeux

spuntato

stomp

afstompen

dumm

romo

saai

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/dʌl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: dull

Heretat de anglès antic: dol

Cognat amb escocès: dull

Cognat amb frisó septentrional: dol

Cognat amb neerlandès: dol

Cognat amb baix alemany: dul

Cognat amb alemany: toll

Cognat amb danès: dval

Cognat amb islandès: dulur

In summary

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”).
Cognate with Scots dull, doll (“slow to understand or hear, deaf, dull”), North Frisian dol (“rash, unthinking, giddy, flippant”), Dutch dol (“crazy, mad, insane”), Low German dul, dol (“mad, silly, stupid, fatuous”), German toll (“crazy, mad, wild, fantastic”), Danish dval (“foolish, absurd”), Icelandic dulur (“secretive, silent”), West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).

Frases

The office paint was a dull , sad tan .