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Xem thêm: muffle, mute, damp, dampen, tone down, numb, benumb, blunt, blunt, pall, muffled, muted, softened, boring, deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, dense, dim, dumb, obtuse, slow, slow, sluggish, thudding, grey, gray, leaden
dull adj.
VERBS appear, be, look, seem, sound | become, get The work gets a bit dull at times. | make sth The long lectures made the afternoon dull. | find sth
ADV. deadly, extremely, stupefyingly, very The film was long and deadly dull. | a bit, a little, fairly, pretty, rather, somewhat | disappointingly
v.
Age had dulled the surface
the varnished table top dulled with time
The shock numbed her senses
Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
adj.
he was so dull at parties
a dull political campaign
a large dull impassive man
dull days with nothing to do
how dull and dreary the world is
fell back into one of her dull moods
a dull glow
dull silver badly in need of a polish
a dull sky
the dull boom of distant breaking waves
muffled drums
the muffled noises of the street
muted trumpets
a boring evening with uninteresting people
the deadening effect of some routine tasks
a dull play
his competent but dull performance
a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train
the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
dull greens and blues
a dull throbbing
dull pain
so dense he never understands anything I say to him
never met anyone quite so dim
although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
worked with the slow students
business is dull (or slow)
a sluggish market
the knife was too dull to be of any use
the dull thud
thudding bullets
a dark day
a dull sky
a grey rainy afternoon
grey clouds
the sky was leaden and thick