Usually means: Lacking interest, excitement, or brightness.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dull: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dull: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dull: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dull: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dull: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dull, dull: Wordnik
  7. dull: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dull, dull: Wiktionary
  9. dull: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dull: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dull: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dull: Dictionary.com
  13. dull: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dull: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dull: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dull: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dull: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dull: Rhymezone
  19. dull: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dull: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dull: Free Dictionary
  22. dull: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dull: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. dull: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
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Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. dull: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dull: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. dull: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. dull: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dull: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dull: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. dull: Coin Collecting
  4. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dulled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
adjective:  Boring; not exciting or interesting.
adjective:  Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
adjective:  Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
adjective:  Sluggish, listless.
adjective:  Bored, depressed, down.
adjective:  Cloudy, overcast.
adjective:  Insensible; unfeeling.
adjective:  Heavy; lifeless; inert.
adjective:  (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
adjective:  Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
verb:  (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
verb:  (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
verb:  To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
noun:  A surname. of Scottish and German origin.
noun:  A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland.

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