dull

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

embotado

romo

obtuso

mocho

desafilado

soso

aburrido

arromar

despuntar

insípido

gris

tonto

sordo

pesado

mate

sin filo

opaco

corto

apagado

estúpido

tedioso

fastidioso

cargante

torpe

estólido

lento

turbio

enojoso

nublado

☁️

necio

nuboso

☁️

desafilar

mutilado

zote

lerdo

monótono

moderar

débil

liso

cubierto

humilde

triste

☹️

flojo

cortar

aliviar

tieso

talar

suavizar

sombrío

redondear

Opuesto a

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

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

stumpf

émoussé

abstumpfen

bot

matt

obtus

spuntato

ennuyeux

stomp

dumm

afstompen

noioso

saai

stupide

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dʌl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: dull

Heredado de inglés antiguo: dol

Cognado con escocés: dull

Cognado con frisón septentrional: dol

Cognado con neerlandés: dol

Cognado con bajo alemán: dul

Cognado con alemán: toll

Cognado con danés: dval

Cognado con islandés: 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).

Oraciones

The office paint was a dull , sad tan .