Crossword clues for duller
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duller \Dull"er\, n. One who, or that which, dulls.
Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duller; p. pr. & vb. n. Dulling.]
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To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. ``This . . . dulled their swords.''
--Bacon.Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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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. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls the mirror.''
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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 \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.]
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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.
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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.
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Insensible; unfeeling.
Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. ``Thy scythe is dull.''
--Herbert.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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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: dull) n. One who, or that which, dulls.
Usage examples of "duller".
You were baptized Ursula, but called Tulla from the start, a nickname probably derived from Thula the Koshnavian water nymph, who lived in Osterwick Lake and was written in various ways: Duller, Tolle, Tullatsch, Thula or Dul, Tul, Thul.
Day, a legendary leather bridge, two sacks full of yellow gold from the days of the Hussite incursions, and a capricious water nymph: Thula Duller Tul.
When he had to mount guard at night behind Meat Depot 2, and drowsiness hit him behind the knees with the flat of its hand, he awakened himself rhythmically: Duller Duller, Tulla!
I am inclined to attribute it to a certain frame of mind, an awareness of suspicious circumstances that elude persons of duller wit.
As in a novel, the more pure invention there is the duller we find it, so here the more like truth, the error appears the better.
I asked Mrs Belflower and Sukey about them and what they told me seemed duller and yet in a way stranger than my inventions.
I am less often bored than I was in childhood between dull game and duller book.
It sported a much duller sheen than its larger relative and was no more than a couple of inches tall.