| 单词 | dull |
| 释义 | dull (once / 121 pages) 1adjv 2adjv 3adjv 4adjv 5adjv To dull something means to take away its edge, its energy, or its excitement. "Watching that movie will dull your senses, until you fall asleep." Let’s think of something interesting about dull. Hmm. It can be a verb or an adjective! So when you’re reading a dull or boring word description, for instance, it can dull or deaden your appetite for reading more word descriptions. That’s pretty fascinating, no? You can even use it for physical things, like a knife, which you can dull, that is, make it less sharp. You can even dull something visual, making it lacking in light, or use it describe pain — you know, the kind that is not sharp, just an ache. Exciting? No — dull. WORD FAMILYdull: dulled, duller, dullest, dulling, dullness, dulls, dully+/dullness: dullnesses USAGE EXAMPLESThe bottle’s purple label with floral images was designed to attract female shoppers’ attention in a wine aisle dominated by dull colors. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The Queen's sister said there was "not a Trotskyite to argue with" at a "rather dull" debate about religion at the Cambridge Union Society. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) But life as a Marine on the ship, with its claustrophobic berthing areas and dull routine, was mind-numbing. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1adj so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness a dull play his competent but dull performance Syn boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome uninteresting arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement 2adj lacking in liveliness or animation he was so dull at parties a dull political campaign a large dull impassive man dull days with nothing to do how dull and dreary the world is fell back into one of her dull moods Syn|Ant unanimated not animated or enlivened; dull colorless, colourlesslacking in variety and interest arid, desiccate, desiccatedlacking vitality or spirit; lifeless bovinedull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox drab, drearylacking in liveliness or charm or surprise heavy, leadenlacking lightness or liveliness humdrum, monotonoustediously repetitious or lacking in variety lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustrelesslacking brilliance or vitality spiritlesslacking ardor or vigor or energy lively full of life and energy alert, watchfulengaged in or accustomed to close observation alive, animatedhaving life or vigor or spirit alive(often followed by `with') full of life and spirit bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippymarked by lively action breezyfresh and animated bubblyfull of or showing high spirits bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparklymarked by high spirits or excitement burbling, burbly, effusive, gushinguttered with unrestrained enthusiasm liveabounding with life and energy warmcharacterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement energeticpossessing or exerting or displaying energy spiriteddisplaying animation, vigor, or liveliness restednot tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing 3adj blunted in responsiveness or sensibility a dull gaze "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather Syn insensitive deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive 4adj slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray Syn dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity 5adj (of business) not active or brisk business is dull (or slow) Syn slow, sluggish inactive lacking activity; lying idle or unused 6v become less interesting or attractive Syn|Hyper pall change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 7v make less lively or vigorous 2Middle age dulled her appetite for travel Hypo|Hyper cloud make milky or dull weaken become weaker 1adj emitting or reflecting very little light a dull glow dull silver badly in need of a polish a dull sky Syn|Ant flat, mat, matt, matte, matted not reflecting light; not glossy lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustrelesslacking luster or shine soft, subduednot brilliant or glaring unpolishednot carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing bright emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts agleam, gleaming, nitidbright with a steady but subdued shining aglow, lambent, lucent, luminoussoftly bright or radiant aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparklyhaving brief brilliant points or flashes of light beadlike, beady, buttonlike, buttonysmall and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgentradiating or as if radiating light blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glaryshining intensely bright as a new penny(metaphor) shining brightly brilliantfull of light; shining intensely ardentglowing or shining like fire glimmeryshining softly and intermittently glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shinyreflecting light iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescenthaving a play of lustrous rainbow colors luridshining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke noctilucentshining or glowing by night satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slickhaving a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light self-luminoushaving in itself the property of emitting light shimmeryglistening tremulously silver, silvern, silveryhaving the white lustrous sheen of silver twinklingshining intermittently with a sparkling light 2adj darkened with overcast a dull sky Syn leaden cloudy full of or covered with clouds 3adj (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted dull greens and blues Syn unsaturated (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted 4v make dull in appearance Age had dulled the surface Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 5v become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness 3the varnished table top dulled with time Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 1adj being or made softer or less loud or clear the dull boom of distant breaking waves Syn muffled, muted, softened soft (of sound) relatively low in volume 2adj not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft the dull thud Syn thudding nonresonant, unreverberant not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate 3v deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping 4Syn|Hyper damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down soften make (images or sounds) soft or softer 1adj not having a sharp edge or point the knife was too dull to be of any use Syn|Ant blunt used of a knife or other blade; not sharp blunted, dulledmade dull or blunt edgelesslacking a cutting edge unsharpenednot sharpened sharp having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing carnassial(of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh chisel-likeresembling a chisel dagger-likeresembling a dagger drill-likeresembling a drill edgedhaving a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination fang-likeresembling a fang file-likeresembling a file incisivesuitable for cutting or piercing keenhaving a sharp cutting edge or point knifelikecutting or able to cut as if with a knife metal-cuttinghard and sharp enough to cut metal penetrating, penetrativetending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing razor-sharpas sharp as a razor sharpenedmade sharp or sharper sharp-toothedhaving sharp teeth pointedhaving a point 2v make dull or blunt 5Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge Syn|Ant|Hyper blunt sharpen make sharp or sharper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 1adj not keenly felt a dull throbbing dull pain Syn|Ant deadened made or become less intense sharp keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point acute, intenseextremely sharp or intense cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbingpainful as if caused by a sharp instrument fulguratingsharp and piercing salt(of speech) painful or bitter 2v make numb or insensitive Syn|Hyper benumb, blunt, numb desensitise, desensitize cause not to be sensitive |
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