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  Dull \Dull\, a. [Compar. Duller; superl. Dullest.] [AS. dol
     foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to
     wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf.
     Gr. ? turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf.
     Dolt, Dwale, Dwell, Fraud.]
     1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension;
        stupid; doltish; blockish. ``Dull at classical learning.''
        --Thackeray.
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              She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
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     2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
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              This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
              are dull of hearing.                  --Matt. xiii.
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              O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     3. Insensible; unfeeling.
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              Think me not
              So dull a devil to forget the loss
              Of such a matchless wife.             -- Beau. & Fl.
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     4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. ``Thy
        scythe is dull.'' --Herbert.
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     5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
        color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
        or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
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     6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
        inert. ``The dull earth.'' --Shak.
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              As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
              changes of study a dull brain.        -- Longfellow.
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     7. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
        uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy;
        depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation
        or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
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              Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.
  
     Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
          sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
          irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
          Lifeless.
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  Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duller; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Dulling.]
     1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. ``This . . .
        dulled their swords.'' --Bacon.
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              Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak.
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     2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
        senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
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              Those [drugs] she has
              Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak.
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              Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench.
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     3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls
        the mirror.'' --Bacon.
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     4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
        make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
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              Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through
              continuance.                          --Hooker.
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  Dull \Dull\, v. i.
     To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R.
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  Dull \Dull\, v. i.
     To become dull or stupid. --Rom. of R.

  Dull \Dull\, a. [Compar. Duller; superl. Dullest.] [AS. dol
     foolish; akin to gedwelan to err, D. dol mad, dwalen to
     wander, err, G. toll mad, Goth. dwals foolish, stupid, cf.
     Gr. ? turbid, troubled, Skr. dhvr to cause to fall. Cf.
     Dolt, Dwale, Dwell, Fraud.]
     1. Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension;
        stupid; doltish; blockish. ``Dull at classical learning.''
        --Thackeray.
  
              She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
  
     2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
  
              This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
              are dull of hearing.                  --Matt. xiii.
                                                    15.
  
              O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     3. Insensible; unfeeling.
  
              Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of
              such a matchless wife.                -- Beau. & Fl.
  
     4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. ``Thy
        scythe is dull.'' --Herbert.
  
     5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
        color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
        or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
  
     6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
        inert. ``The dull earth.'' --Shak.
  
              As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
              changes of study a dull brain.        -- Longfellow.
  
     7. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
        uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy;
        depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation
        or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
  
              Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.
  
     Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
          sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
          irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
          Lifeless.

  Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duller; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Dulling.]
     1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. ``This . . .
        dulled their swords.'' --Bacon.
  
              Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak.
  
     2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
        senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
  
              Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the
              sense a while.                        --Shak.
  
              Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench.
  
     3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls
        the mirror.'' --Bacon.
  
     4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
        make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
  
              Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through
              continuance.                          --Hooker.

  dull
       adj 1: 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" [ant: lively]
       2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow";
          "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
          [ant: bright]
       3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom
          of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled
          noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: muffled, muted,
           softened]
       4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
          boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
          effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his
          competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who
          couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task
          the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious
          days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"-
          Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully
          wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome,
           slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
       5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull
          greens and blues"
       6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp]
       7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
          "so dense he never understands anything I say to him";
          "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at
          classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly
          quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb
          decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being
          deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
          [syn: dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow]
       8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
          slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: slow, sluggish]
       9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to
          be of any use" [ant: sharp]
       10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so
           exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa
           Cather
       11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or
           against something relatively soft; "the dull thud";
           "thudding bullets" [syn: thudding]
       12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray
           rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and
           thick" [syn: gray, grey, leaden]
       v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
       2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or
          brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
       3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle,
           mute, damp, dampen, tone down]
       4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
          [syn: numb, benumb, blunt]
       5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's
          edge" [syn: blunt] [ant: sharpen]
       6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall]
       7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her
          appetite for travel"

  dull
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 ανιαρός, πληκτικός, βαρετός
     2 αμβλύς, όχι κοφτερός (πχ για ένα μαχαίρι)
     3 υποφώτιστος, υποφωτισμένος, όχι ιδιαίτερα λαμπερός, υποφέγγων,
  σκοτεινός
     4 θαμπός, ματ, μη αστραφτερός, μη γυαλιστερός
     5 αργόστροφος

  dull
     Catalan n.
     1 (lb ca nautical) scupper
     2 bung-hole
     Welsh n.
     method

  Dull
     n.
     (surname: en). of Scottish and German origin.
     n.
     (place en village council area/Perth and Kinross cc/Scotland).

  dull
     a.
     1 Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
     2 boring; not exciting or interesting.
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or
  something that was sharp.
     2 (lb en transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull,
  stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.

  Dull
     n.
     (surname: en). of Scottish and German origin.
     n.
     (place en village council area/Perth and Kinross cc/Scotland).

  dull
     Catalan n.
     1 (lb ca nautical) scupper
     2 bung-hole
     Welsh n.
     method

  Dull
     n.
     (surname: en). of Scottish and German origin.
     n.
     (place en village council area/Perth and Kinross cc/Scotland).

  dull
     Catalan n.
     1 (lb ca nautical) scupper
     2 bung-hole
     Welsh n.
     method

  Dull
     n.
     (surname: en). of Scottish and German origin.
     n.
     (place en village council area/Perth and Kinross cc/Scotland).

  dull
     Englanti a.
     1 tylsä
     2 (kuva) tylsä
     3 (''ihmisestä'') tylsämielinen, hidasälyinen
     4 synkkä, ei kirkas
     5 (''filatelia'') sammea
     Englanti vb.
     1 tylsyttää
     2 tylsyä

  dull
     Engelska a.
     1 slö, trög, oskarp; ej vass (även om ett intellekt)
     2 tråkig, oengagerad, ointresserad av det som görs
     3 matt; som inte blänker

  dull /dˈɨːɬ/ 
  method

  dull /dˈʌl/
  afstomp

  Dull /dˈʌl/
  مملّ

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. ску́чен
  boring, not exciting or interesting
  2. тъп 2.
  lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp
   3.
  not bright or intelligent
  3. матов
  not shiny

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. притъпявам се
  to become dull
  2. притъпявам
  to render dull
  3. смекчавам
  to soften, moderate or blunt

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  tupý

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  nudný

  dull /dˈʌl/
  mdlý

  dull /dˈʌl/
  tlumený

  dull /dˈʌl/
  zabedněný

  dull /dˈʌl/
  otupený

  dull /dˈʌl/
  nezáživný

  dull /dˈʌl/
  kalný

  dull /dˈʌl/
  nezajímavý

  dull /dˈʌl/
  nechápavý

  dull /dˈʌl/
  jednotvárný

  dull /dˈʌl/
  abgenutzt 

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  abstumpfen, schwächen 
   see: dulling, dulled, emotionally dulled
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
   [dated] beschränkt, minderbemittelt, unterbelichtet, dämlich, einfältig  [poet.]
           Note: Person
     Synonyms: air-headed, half-witted, dim-witted, dull-witted
  
           Note: of a person

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  dämpfen 
   see: dulling, dulled
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
   [dated] dumm, dämlich [Dt.]  [Schw.] , dusselig [Dt.]  [Schw.] , dusslig [Norddt.] , doof [Norddt.]  [Mitteldt.] , blöde [Norddt.]  [Mitteldt.] , deppert [Bayr.]  [Ös.]  [ugs.] , töricht [geh.] , beknackt  [Dt.]  [ugs.]
           Note: Person
     Synonyms: silly, stupid, foolish, dumb, dopey, doltish, air-headed, gormless
  
   see: sillier, more stupid, more foolish, dumber, more dopey, doltisher, more gormless, duller, silliest, most stupid, most foolish, dumbest, most dopey, doltishest, most gormless, dullest, as thick as they come, thick as a plank, thick as two (short) planks, be (as) thick as two short planks, play dumb, act dumb, Silly me! I've locked myself out of the car.
  
           Note: of a person

  dull /dˈʌl/
  fade, öde, stumpfsinnig, wenig ansprechend, trocken 
           Note: Sache
     Synonym: stodgy
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
  langweilig, fade, steif 
           Note: Person
     Synonym: stodgy
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
  matt 
           Note: Farbe

  dull /dˈʌl/
  matt, lahm  [cook.]
           Note: Weingeschmack
           Note: wine taste

  dull /dˈʌl/
  schwerfällig, stumpf, dumpf, trübe 

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  stumpf machen 
   see: dulling, dulled
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
  trist 
           Note: Farbe
     Synonym: drab
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
  trostlos, öd, öde 
     Synonym: dreary
  
   see: drearier, dreariest
  

  dull /dˈʌl/
  trübe, trüb, grau  [meteo.]
        "It's a dull day today."  - Heute ist ein trüber Tag.
   see: overcast
  

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  sich trüben 
           Note: Augen
   see: dulling, dulled, dulls, dulled
  
           Note: eyes

  dull /dˈʌl/
  
  πληκτικός, μουντός, μουχρός, βαρετός, ανούσιος

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. pilvinen
  cloudy, overcast
  2. tunteeton
  insensible; unfeeling
  3. tylsä 2.
  lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp
   3.
  boring, not exciting or interesting
  4. hidasjärkinen, yksinkertainen
  not bright or intelligent
  5. vaimea
  not clear, muffled
  6. himmeä
  not shiny
  7. lievä
  of pain: not intense
  8. kankea
  sluggish, listless

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. tylstyä, tylsyä
  to become dull
  2. tylsyttää, tylstyttää
  to render dull
  3. lieventää, lievittää, sumentaa, tyhmentää, tylsistyttää
  to soften, moderate or blunt

  dull /dʌl/
  1. abêtir
  2. bébête, sot
  3. obtus

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  1. सुस्त, मूढ़
        "He was so dull at parties"
        "Business is dull (or slow)"
  2. धुंधला
        "A dull glow"
  3. हल्का
        "Dull greens and blues"
        "A dull throbbing"
        "The dull thud"
  4. कुंद
        "The knife was too dull to be of any use"
  5. निरुत्साह
        "A dull gaze"

  dull /dˈʌl/ 
  1. सुस्त~करना
        "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
        "--"कुंद~बनाना""
        "Age had dulled the surface"

  dull /dˈʌl/
  dosadan, glup, nejasan, nejasna, nezanimljiv, potmuo, sumoran, taman, trom

  dull /dˈʌl/
  1. lassú észjárású
  2. egyhangú
  3. unalmas
  4. lanyha
  5. buta
  6. tompa
  7. fakó
  8. matt

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  tumpul
  lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp

  dull /dˈʌl/
  smussato, spuntato

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. つまらない, 退屈
  boring, not exciting or interesting
  2. 鈍い 2.
  lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp
   3.
  not bright or intelligent

  dull /dʌl/
  brutus

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. kjedelig
  boring, not exciting or interesting
  2. dum
  not bright or intelligent
  3. matt
  not shiny

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  sløve
  to render dull

  dull /dʌl/
  I.   1.  nudny, mdły
   2.  [kolor]  szary, ciemny
   3.  [osoba]  bez wyrazu, apatyczny
   4.  [dzień]  zachmurzony
   5.  [dźwięk]  głuchy
   6.  [o doznaniach]  przyćmiony, przytępiony
  II.   1.  [doznania]  stępiać
   2.  [lit]  [o blasku]  ściemniać się

  dull /dʌl/
  1. embrutecer
  2. estúpido, imbecil, tolo
  3. obtuso

  dull /dʌl/
  embotado, obtuso

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  1. tråkig
  boring, not exciting or interesting
  2. slö, oskarp
  lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp
  3. oskarp, trög
  not bright or intelligent
  4. matt
  not shiny

  dull //dəl// //dəɫ// //dʌl// 
  dämpa, döva
  to soften, moderate or blunt

  dull /dˈʌl/
  1. ağır, kafası işlemez, kalın kafalı, gabi
  2. alık, anlayışsız
  3. duygusuz, hissiz, vurdumduymaz
  4. kesat, durgun
  5. sıkıcı, kasvetli
  6. kor, kesmez
  7. donuk, sönük, canlı ve parlak olmayan (renk)
  8. körletmek, körlenmek
  9. donuklaştırmak
  10. donuklaşmak
  11. sersemletmek . dullard  ahmak kimse. dullish  donuk
  12. ahmak. dullness  sıkıntı, kasvet
  13. körlük, kesmezlik. dully  ahmakça
  14. sönük bir şekilde.

  dull
  dull

  
/ˈdəɫ/

  664 Moby Thesaurus words for "dull":
     KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker-colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant,
     abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless,
     allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize,
     anesthetized, apathetic, appease, arctic, arid, ascetic, ashen,
     ashy, asleep, assuage, asthenic, attemper, attenuate, austere,
     autistic, backward, bad, baffle, bald, banausic, bank the fire,
     bare, barren, bate, bated, becloud, bedaze, bedim, beef-witted,
     befog, benumb, benumbed, besot, betwixt and between, blah, blanch,
     blank, blase, bleach, blear, blear-witted, bled white, blind,
     bloodless, blue, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended,
     blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, blurry,
     bored, boring, bovine, brainless, broken-record, bromidic,
     cadaverous, callous, candid, canescent, cast down, cataleptic,
     catatonic, characterless, chasten, chicken, chill, chilly,
     chloranemic, chloroform, cinereous, cinerous, cloddish, cloud,
     clouded, cloudy, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
     coldhearted, colorless, comatose, common, commonplace, constrain,
     control, cool, cowardly, cramp, crass, cripple, cushion, damp,
     damped, dampen, dampened, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled,
     dappled-gray, dark, darken, de-emphasize, dead, deaden,
     deaden the pain, deadened, deadly pale, deafen, deathly pale,
     debilitate, debilitated, decolor, decolorize, dejected, dense,
     depressed, depressing, desensitize, desensitized, detached,
     devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish, dimmed, dingy, direct,
     discolor, discolored, disedge, disinterested, dismal,
     dispassionate, dispirited, doltish, dope, dopey, dormant,
     dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downhearted, downplay, drab, draggy,
     drain, drain of color, draw the teeth, drearisome, dreary,
     drooping, droopy, drug, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull of mind,
     dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted,
     dulled, dullish, dumb, dun, duncical, dusty, earthbound, ease,
     ease matters, edgeless, effete, elephantine, emotionally dead,
     emotionless, empty, enervate, enervated, enfeeble, etherize,
     etiolate, etiolated, even-tempered, everlasting, eviscerate,
     exanimate, exhaust, exhausting, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
     exsanguineous, extenuate, fade, faded, fagging, faint, faintish,
     fair, fair to middling, faired, fairish, fallow, fat-witted,
     fatiguing, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy,
     foment, foul, frank, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, fume,
     ghastly, give relief, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gone, gray,
     gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
     gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey,
     griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, gross-headed, gruel,
     gutless, haggard, half-witted, hard, hardened, harping, hazy,
     heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, homely,
     homespun, hopeless, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, icy, imbecile,
     immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient,
     imperturbable, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense,
     inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indistinct, inert,
     inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable, insensate,
     insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, insouciant,
     insusceptible, inured, invariable, irksome, iron-gray, jaded,
     jejune, jog-trot, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
     knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lackadaisical,
     lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lay, lay low, lay out,
     lead-gray, leaden, lean, lenify, lessen, lethargic, lifeless,
     lighten, limber, limp, listless, literal, livid, logy, long-winded,
     low-spirited, lowering, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, lustless,
     marrowless, mat, matter-of-fact, mealy, mediocre, medium, middling,
     mitigate, moderate, modest, modulate, mollify, monotone,
     monotonous, moribund, moronic, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
     muddy, muffle, muffled, mull, mundane, murky, mute, muted,
     namby-pamby, narcotize, natural, neat, nerveless, neutral,
     nonchalant, nonemotional, nubilous, numb, numbed, numbing,
     numskulled, obdurate, objective, obscure, obtund, obtundent,
     obtuse, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, opaque, open, ordinary,
     out of touch, overcast, overclouded, pad, pale, pale as death,
     pale-faced, palliate, pallid, palsy, paralyze, passable,
     passionless, passive, pasty, patient, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
     pedestrian, peroxide, phlegmatic, pithless, plain, plain-speaking,
     plain-spoken, play down, plodding, pluckless, poetryless,
     pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, poultice, pour balm into,
     pour oil on, powerless, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure,
     put to sleep, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, relieve,
     repress, resigned, respectable, restrain, retard, retund, rocky,
     rounded, rubbery, rustic, sad, sallow, salve, sap, sapless, sated,
     sedentary, self-absorbed, severe, shake, shake up, sickly, silver,
     silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking,
     simpleminded, sinewless, singsong, slack, slacken, slake,
     slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, slow down,
     slow-witted, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering,
     smoothed, smother, smothered, so-so, sober, sober down, soft,
     soft-pedal, soften, soften up, softened, solemn, somber, somnolent,
     soothe, soporific, sordo, soulless, spare, spineless, spiritless,
     spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, staid, standing, stark, static,
     steady, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stifle, stifled,
     stodgy, stoic, stolid, stone-colored, stop, straightforward,
     strengthless, stuffy, stultified, stun, stupe, stupefied, stupefy,
     stupid, subdue, subdued, subfusc, sunless, superficial, supine,
     suppress, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tarnish, tasteless, taupe,
     tedious, temper, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated,
     thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickskulled, tiresome, tiring,
     tolerable, tone down, toneless, torpid, treadmill, tune down, turn,
     unadorned, unaffected, unaffectionate, unaroused, unbrace,
     uncaring, uncolored, unconcerned, undermine, underplay,
     undisturbable, unedged, unembellished, unemotional, uneventful,
     unfanciful, unfeeling, unfelt, unflappable, unhardened, unideal,
     unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
     uninspired, uninterested, uninteresting, uninventive, unirritable,
     unlively, unloving, unman, unnerve, unnerved, unnervous,
     unoriginal, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpoetic, unpoetical,
     unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unromantic, unromanticized,
     unsharp, unsharpened, unstrengthen, unstring, unstrung,
     unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvarnished, unvarying,
     vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen,
     weak, weaken, weakly, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced,
     white, whiten, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary
  
  

  a. 钝的,无趣的;

     a. 钝的,无趣的,呆滞的,阴暗的
     vt. 使迟钝,使阴暗,缓和
     vi. 变迟钝,减少