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dullness


noun
1. the quality of being slow to understand
Syn:
obtuseness
Derivationally related forms:
obtuse (for: obtuseness), dull
Hypernyms:
stupidity
Hyponyms:
oscitancy, oscitance
2. the quality of lacking interestingness
- the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees
Derivationally related forms:
dull
Hypernyms:
uninterestingness
Hyponyms:
boringness, dreariness, insipidness, insipidity, tediousness,
tediousness, tiresomeness, jejunity, jejuneness, tameness,
vapidity, vapidness
Attrubites:
dull
3. a lack of visual brightness
- the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea
Ant:
brightness
Derivationally related forms:
dull
Hypernyms:
visual property
Hyponyms:
dimness, subduedness, flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness,
mat, matt, matte
4. lack of sensibility
- there was a dullness in his heart
- without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it.
Derivationally related forms:
dull
Hypernyms:
unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility
5. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
- the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible
Syn:
bluntness
Ant:
sharpness
Derivationally related forms:
blunt (for: bluntness), dull
Hypernyms:
shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation
Hyponyms:
obtuseness

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