Antonyms for duller

Grammar : Adj

Spell : duhl

Phonetic Transcription : dʌl

Definition of duller

Origin : c.1200, "stupid;" early 13c., "blunt, not sharp;" rare before mid-14c., apparently from Old English dol "dull-witted, foolish," or an unrecorded parallel word, or from Middle Low German dul "slow-witted," both from Proto-Germanic *dulaz (cf. Old Frisian and Old Saxon dol "foolish," Old High German tol, German toll "mad, wild," Gothic dwals "foolish"), from PIE *dheu- (1) "dust, vapor, smoke" (and related notions of "defective perception or wits"). Of color from early 15c.; of pain or other sensations from 1725. Sense of "boring" first recorded 1580s.
dull. (8) Not exhilarating; not delightful; as to make dictionaries is dull work. [Johnson]
Dullsville, slang for "town where nothing happens," attested from 1960.

adj unintelligent
adj insensitive
adj boring, uninteresting
adj not sharp
adj uneventful
adj drab, lackluster in effect on senses

Example sentences :

That might very well be, for the duller often sees better than the keener eye.
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

All these yellows are duller at the horizon than a little way above.
Extract from : « The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men » by Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

He had heard something which her duller ears had failed to hear.
Extract from : « Good Old Anna » by Marie Belloc Lowndes

His life fell on duller times and among feebler contemporaries.
Extract from : « Andrew Melville » by William Morison

Then the cavalcade would sweep on its way and the street be duller than before.
Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan

"Mademoiselle means that I am duller than usual," I suggested.
Extract from : « Dross » by Henry Seton Merriman

I could have made it duller and sadder by telling you p. 271other things.
Extract from : « Letters of Edward FitzGerald » by Edward FitzGerald

The result was "Precaution," than which no British novel could be duller.
Extract from : « American Men of Mind » by Burton E. Stevenson

Behind them, and in the majority, were quieter, duller transactions.
Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore

But duller and more tedious still was the night that followed.
Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

Synonyms for duller

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