Definition: 1. Not interesting or exciting. 2. Make numb or insensitive. 3. Lacking in liveliness or animation. 4. Emitting or reflecting very little light. 5. Being or made softer or less loud or clear.
Use 'dull' in a sentence:
1. Today it will be dull and overcast.
2. Don't sell into a dull market.
3. Her eyes were dull.
4. Most critics have sneered at the movie, calling it dull and cheaply made.
5. The first half of the game was pretty dull.
6. She brought sunshine into our dull lives.
7. Their media have earned the reputation for being rather dull and uninteresting.
8. I found the characters very two-dimensional and dull.
9. It's always dull and raining.
10. Yesterday's programme was rather dull.
11. He's very nice, but I find him rather dull and predictable.
12. Douglas has an undeserved reputation for being dull and dry.
13. At his best the man is still rather a dull fellow.
14. The coffin closed with a dull thud.
15. He felt dulled and stupid with sleep.
16. The house was dull, old-fashioned and in bad condition.
17. His head hit the floor with a dull thud.
18. His letters are insufferably dull.
19. It is the picture itself that is the problem; so small, so dull. It's a nothing, really.
20. The tablets they gave him dulled the pain for a while.
21. The mind becomes dull if the body doesn't get on exercise.
22. I found the characters very two-dimensional, not to say dull.
23. They are both nice people but can be rather dull.
24. Poems which had seemed dull and boring suddenly came to life.
25. A dull red flush suffused Selby's face.
26. My headache faded to a dull throbbing.
27. Tropical colours may look rather harsh in our dull northern light.
28. It was a dull, grey day.
29. The gates shut behind him with a dull thud.
30. He was never dull, always erudite and well informed.
31. There's never a dull moment when John's around.
32. Flowers can bring a dull room back to life.
33. I felt she found me boring and dull.
34. The endless rain seemed to dull all sound.
35. The party was stupefyingly dull.
36. The town is still trying to cast off its dull image.
37. The food was dull and uninteresting.
38. The second half of the game was dull by comparison with the first.
39. The village itself is pretty, but the surrounding countryside is rather dull.
40. The music is dull and uninspiring, and the same is true of the acting.
41. Bright curtains can cheer up a dull room.
42. Broadcast news was accurate and reliable but deadly dull.
