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dull

adjective
  1. (of business) not active or brisk
    “business is dull (or slow)”
    slow
  2. emitting or reflecting very little light
    “a dull glow”
  3. (of color) very low in saturation
  4. slow to learn or understand
    slow
  5. darkened with overcast
    leaden
  6. not having a sharp edge or point
    “the knife was too dull to be of any use”
  7. not keenly felt
    “a dull throbbing”
  8. lacking in liveliness or animation
    “They were so dull at parties.”
  9. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    slow
  10. being or made softer or less loud or clear
    “the dull boom of distant breaking waves”
    muffled
  11. not clear and resonant
    thudding
  12. blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
    “a dull gaze”
verb
  1. make less lively or vigorous
    “Middle age dulled my appetite for travel.”
  2. become dull or lusterless in appearance
  3. become less interesting or attractive
    pall
  4. make dull in appearance
    “Age had dulled the surface”
  5. make dull or blunt
    “Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge”
  6. make numb or insensitive
    numbbluntbenumb
  7. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
    mutedampmuffledampentone down