dull

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

émoussé

obtus

ennuyeux

stupide

sourd

idiot

sot

terne

lourd

fastidieux

émousser

engourdir

assourdir

bête

mat

lent

adoucir

abêtir

atténuer

barbant

ennuyeuse

amortir

borné

contondant

éteint

insipide

maussade

monotone

user

bébête

ennuyant

moins tranchant

moins aigue

lassant

étouffé

lenteur

épais

doux

se ternir

vin fade

morne

muet

crétin

raide

sombre

son

🔉

chiant

calmer

bouché

bêta

Opposé de

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

Synonymes

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

Traductions

stumpf

embotado

bot

matt

abstumpfen

spuntato

stomp

romo

dumm

afstompen

saai

noioso

langweilig

smussato

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dʌl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: dull

Hérité de ancien anglais: dol

Appartenant à écossais: dull

Appartenant à frison septentrional: dol

Appartenant à néerlandais: dol

Appartenant à bas-allemand: dul

Appartenant à allemand: toll

Appartenant à danois: dval

Appartenant à islandais: 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).

Phrases

The office paint was a dull , sad tan .