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(of business) not active or brisk
business is dull (or slow); a sluggish market
(adj) dim, dense, dumb, obtuse, slow
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
(adj) leaden
darkened with overcast
a dark day; a dull sky; the sky was leaden and thick
(adj) tiresome, tedious, irksome, boring, ho-hum, slow, deadening, wearisome
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
(adj) softened, muffled, muted
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
(adj) thudding
not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
the dull thud; thudding bullets
(verb) pall
become less interesting or attractive
(verb) blunt
make dull or blunt
Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
make numb or insensitive
The shock numbed her senses
(verb) tone down, damp, dampen, muffle, mute
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping