dull

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

spuntato

noioso

smussato

insipido

monotono

monco

ottuso

smussare

stupido

senza filo

opaco

tedioso

insulso

sciocco

ammorbidire

mutilato

appannato

spuntare

pallido

ignorante

torbido

☁️

intormentire

intorpidire

melenso

mogio

mutilare

non affilato

nuvoloso

☁️

offuscato

ottundere

ovattare

ponderato

sbiadire

senza gusto

smorzare

soporifero

spegnersi

tagliato

troncare

troncato

vino vuoto

appannarsi

spelato

spuntarsi

perdere il filo

poco visibile

scolorarsi

senza sale

senza sapore

senza punta

Opposto di

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

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

stumpf

émoussé

embotado

bot

matt

abstumpfen

obtus

stomp

ennuyeux

dumm

afstompen

romo

stupide

langweilig

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dʌl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: dull

Ereditato da inglese antico: dol

Affine scozzese: dull

Affine frisone settentrionale: dol

Affine olandese: dol

Affine basso tedesco: dul

Affine tedesco: toll

Affine danese: dval

Affine islandese: 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).

Frasi

The office paint was a dull , sad tan .