dull

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

amortecer

embotar

cego

embotado

enfadonho

aliviar

estúpido

adoçar

mitigar

tolo

imbecil

idiota

aborrecido

entediante

fastidioso

maçante

desafiar

desafiado

lerdo

tornar tolo

parvo

fátuo

fosco

estulto

lorpa

tedioso

rombudo

embrutecer

sem vitalidade

embaciar-se

empanar-se

abafar

deslustrar-se

baço

banal

cansativo

cega

cegar

chato

entorpecer

entristecedor

fraco

insípido

lento

melancólico

☹️

nebuloso

☁️

obscuro

obtuso

rombo

sombrio

Oposto de

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

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

stumpf

émoussé

embotado

bot

matt

abstumpfen

obtus

spuntato

ennuyeux

stomp

dumm

romo

afstompen

noioso

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dʌl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: dull

Herdado de inglês arcaico: dol

Cognato com scots: dull

Cognato com frísio setentrional: dol

Cognato com holandês: dol

Cognato com baixo alemão: dul

Cognato com alemão: toll

Cognato com dinamarquês: dval

Cognato com islandês: 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 .