Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being dull, in any sense of that word.
- noun Synonyms Baldness, Heaviness, etc. (in style). See
frigidity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
slow tounderstand things. - noun The quality of being
uninteresting . - noun The
lack ofvisual brilliance . - noun of an edge
bluntness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of sensibility
- noun without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
- noun a lack of visual brightness
- noun the quality of being slow to understand
- noun the quality of lacking interestingness
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Examples
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And that the dullness of death is gay, compared to thy dullness
Atlantic City 1912
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As Eliot notes, though, this dullness is actually a protection that keeps us from being overwhelmed by the power of the true nature of things.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010
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As Eliot notes, though, this dullness is actually a protection that keeps us from being overwhelmed by the power of the true nature of things.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010
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As Eliot notes, though, this dullness is actually a protection that keeps us from being overwhelmed by the power of the true nature of things.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010
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As Eliot notes, though, this dullness is actually a protection that keeps us from being overwhelmed by the power of the true nature of things.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010
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As Eliot notes, though, this dullness is actually a protection that keeps us from being overwhelmed by the power of the true nature of things.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Mystical Experience: A Question of What's Beyond Rabbi Alan Lurie 2010
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Blade Runner has some substance, maybe even a lot, but it's so buried in dullness it's tough to dig it out.
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Rather, the stylistic dullness is disagreeably coarsened and made the more decadent by being a brotherly symptom of, and in fact a technical support for, the assumption (which has only strengthened in the past 150 years) that the aim of poetry is apotheosis, an ecstatic and unmediated self-consumption in the moment of perception and feeling.
“The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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On the contrary, a slow imagination maketh that defect or fault of the mind which is commonly called dullness, stupidity, and sometimes by other names that signify slowness of motion, or difficulty to be moved.
Leviathan 2007
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You know the pessimists who write so much about our slowness, what they call our dullness, and sometimes our blunders; they would not be satisfied unless they had the news of a Waterloo with their porridge every morning for breakfast; then their appetites would still leave them hungry for a Trafalgar each day every month.
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