DULL Synonyms

• lacking brilliance or vitality

• lacking luster or shine

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• using or containing too many words

• lacking in variety and interest

• weak in color; not colorful

• a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

• lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• of a light brownish green color

• causing dejection

• lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

• causing dejection

• lacking contrast or shading between tones

• (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a level tract of land

• a shallow box in which seedlings are started

• a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

• freight car without permanent sides or roof

• a deflated pneumatic tire

• scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

• a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

• with flat sails

• in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly

• having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

• having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

• not modified or restricted by reservations

• stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

• flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

• lacking taste or flavor or tang

• lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting

• having lost effervescence

• sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

• horizontally level

• lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth

• not reflecting light; not glossy

• commercially inactive

• the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

• not challenging; dull and lacking excitement

• tediously repetitious or lacking in variety

• lacking taste or flavor or tang

• lacking interest or significance or impact

• deprived of life; no longer living

• destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings

• lacking animation or excitement or activity

• not having the capacity to support life

• tediously repetitious or lacking in variety

• sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

• found in the ordinary course of events

• concerned with the world or worldly matters

• belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly

• a person who travels by foot

• lacking wit or imagination

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• marked by no noteworthy or significant events

• not stimulating

• not exciting

• depressing to the spirit

• arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

• characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative

• lacking taste or flavor or tang

• lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

• not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

• at a slow tempo

• (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

• showing a time that is earlier than the actual time

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of business) not active or brisk

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly