dullness
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈdʌlnəs/
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- Many people complained about the dullness of the movie, saying it lacked excitement.
Examples
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The accompanying text dryly remarked, "Thus do tastes differ, and thus is the world saved from dullness."
Academic text (2017) -
Chandler felt the locked-room mystery suffered from dullness, partly because of its plot but largely because of its language.
Academic text (2005) -
In a matter of hours, I went from having the most exciting life in the world to having a life of supreme dullness.
Fiction book (1997) -
Now, would you have these gifts developed, or would you condemn her to domestic dullness?
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"From first to last, the narrative never lapses into dullness."
Blog text (28) -
If so, baseball players may truly rival golfers in sheer dullness.
Blog text (16) -
As Warfield said, "the regular public worship of the church, for all its local imperfections and dullness, is a divine provision for sustaining the individual soul."
Blog text (15) -
Government newspapers, in their repetitive dullness, their emphasis on official statistics and reports, deadened this quality of temporal immediacy, but the independent papers of the left did not.
Academic text (1995) -
Too many school subjects and homework assignments, strict school discipline, monotony, dullness, long recitations, enforced stillness, competitiveness, and disregard for individuality were among the problems that various observers associated with poor school health.
Academic text (2014) -
The dullness of the presentation made it hard for anyone to stay engaged.
Synonyms
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1.3
A feeling of being tired and restless when you have nothing to do
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5.5
A boring feeling when things are the same again and again
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6.8
Feeling bored from doing the same thing for a long time
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4.6
A lack of feeling or interest in things often after long stress
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3.8
A state that makes you lose interest
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4.1
A pleasant, polite style that feels too safe or insincere
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6.2
A dull, gloomy feeling that makes things seem not interesting
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9.3
A lack of energy and interest in speech or writing
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5.1
A plain, dull appearance with no bright color or style
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9.6
Lack of flavor or interest that makes something dull
A quality that makes people not want to pay attention
A feeling that something is dull and boring
Being dull and without strong taste or interest
A boring feeling caused by something that lasts a long time
A weak feeling of interest or excitement
The quality of being ordinary and not exciting
A state of being ordinary and not exciting
A serious, old-fashioned style that feels boring
The quality of being boring and unoriginal
Compounds
- Specialized
A triangular area on the front of the chest where the heart makes a dull sound when tapped
How Interesting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dullness comes from dull, meaning 'boring' or 'not exciting'. So dullness is the quality of something that fails to interest or excite people.