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Results for: "dull"

Translating from English to Norwegian

Translations:

dull — lacking the ability to cut easily
→ sløv
→ slø nn
dull — boring, not exciting or interesting
→ kjedelig

More translations:

dull
→ treg i oppfatningen, tungnem
dull
→ grå, tung, overskyet
dull
→ kjedelig, trist

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


VERB (7)

1. make dull in appearance;
- Example: "Age had dulled the surface"

2. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness;
- Example: "the varnished table top dulled with time"

3. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping;
[syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]

4. make numb or insensitive;
- Example: "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]

5. make dull or blunt;
- Example: "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[syn: dull, blunt]

6. become less interesting or attractive;
[syn: pall, dull]

7. make less lively or vigorous;
- Example: "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"


ADJECTIVE (12)

1. lacking in liveliness or animation;
- Example: "he was so dull at parties"
- Example: "a dull political campaign"
- Example: "a large dull impassive man"
- Example: "dull days with nothing to do"
- Example: "how dull and dreary the world is"
- Example: "fell back into one of her dull moods"

2. emitting or reflecting very little light;
- Example: "a dull glow"
- Example: "dull silver badly in need of a polish"
- Example: "a dull sky"

3. being or made softer or less loud or clear;
- Example: "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"
- Example: "muffled drums"
- Example: "the muffled noises of the street"
- Example: "muted trumpets"
[syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened]

4. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
- Example: "a boring evening with uninteresting people"
- Example: "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"
- Example: "a dull play"
- Example: "his competent but dull performance"
- Example: "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"
- Example: "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke
- Example: "tedious days on the train"
- Example: "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain
- Example: "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
[syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]

5. (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted;
- Example: "dull greens and blues"

6. not keenly felt;
- Example: "a dull throbbing"
- Example: "dull pain"

7. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
- Example: "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"
- Example: "never met anyone quite so dim"
- Example: "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
- Example: "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"
- Example: "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"
- Example: "worked with the slow students"
[syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]

8. (of business) not active or brisk;
- Example: "business is dull (or slow)"
- Example: "a sluggish market"
[syn: dull, slow, sluggish]

9. not having a sharp edge or point;
- Example: "the knife was too dull to be of any use"

10. blunted in responsiveness or sensibility;
- Example: "a dull gaze"
- Example: "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather

11. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft;
- Example: "the dull thud"
- Example: "thudding bullets"
[syn: dull, thudding]

12. darkened with overcast;
- Example: "a dark day"
- Example: "a dull sky"
- Example: "the sky was leaden and thick"
[syn: dull, leaden]