Crossword clues for dullest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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-superlative of: dull)
Usage examples of "dullest".
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round.
The dinner it was minced veal and potatoes and rice-pudding, perhaps the dullest food in the world was over in a quarter of an hour.
Kathleen and Jimmy stood amazed at the sudden keenness of her interest in what seemed to them the dullest story.
Thus it is not surprising that Mabel and Kathleen, conscientiously conducting one of the dullest dolls tea-parties at which either had ever assisted, should suddenly, and both at once, have felt a strange, unreasonable, but quite irresistible desire to return instantly to the Temple of Flora even at the cost of leaving the dolls tea-service in an unwashed state, and only half the raisins eaten.
If he had even the dullest of swords or the crudest of clubs, he would bash this thing to pieces, tear open its shell, and find and rip out that tongue.
Reverend Middleton wondered how the sweetly vibrant Rebecca Wythe could have married this dark man who stirred awe in the dullest of his people.
Okay, so she was probably working the dullest job in America, in the accounting department of a major soap manufacturer .
Even the dullest of the troopers understood by now what was being attempted, although few of them believed it was possible.
I was saying last Friday at a meeting, lovely soups and salads here but just the plainest and dullest of bread.
And, when he wished, he wove around his words A nameless spell that marvelously thrilled The dullest ear.
He will invite the dullest of them to stay with him for quite prolonged visits, and without a murmur set apart a suite of chapters for their accommodation.
The dullest could perceive that such a registration and resettlement within the Six Duchies could easily be a prelude to a wide-scale massacre.
She would, she resolved silently, be the dullest companion he had ever had the misfortune to entertain.
This is the quickest way and the dullest, but I want to get Mother home.
Indeed they set him down as one of the dullest and most uninteresting people they had ever met.