All dull synonyms
dull
D d adj dull
- unlit β not illuminated
- backward β A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- besotted β If you are besotted with someone or something, you like them so much that you seem foolish or silly.
- brainless β If you describe someone or something as brainless, you mean that you think they are stupid.
- daffy β If you describe a person or thing as daffy, you mean that they are strange or foolish, but in a rather attractive way.
- daft β If you describe a person or their behaviour as daft, you think that they are stupid, impractical, or rather strange.
- dense β Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area.
- dim-witted β a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- half-baked β insufficiently cooked.
- ignorant β lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- indolent β having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful: an indolent person.
- insensate β not endowed with sensation; inanimate: insensate stone.
- moronic β Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- obtuse β not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull.
- scatterbrained β a person incapable of serious, connected thought.
- stolid β not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- thick β having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
- vacuous β without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
- wearisome β causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- witless β lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
- doltish β a dull, stupid person; blockhead.
- feeble-minded β lacking the normal mental powers.
- imbecilic β of, relating to, or characteristic of an imbecile.
- simple-minded β free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- unintellectual β appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- apathetic β If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
- colorless β Something that is colorless has no color at all.
- dead β A person, animal, or plant that is dead is no longer living.
- heavy β of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- impassible β incapable of suffering pain.
verb dull
- deaden β If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
- dampen β To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
- stultify β to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- cloud β A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- blur β A blur is a shape or area which you cannot see clearly because it has no distinct outline or because it is moving very fast.
- muffle β to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.