| • | Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish. |
| • | Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. |
| • | Insensible; unfeeling. |
| • | Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. |
| • | Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror. |
| • | Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. |
| • | Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. |
| • | To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. |
| • | To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. |
| • | To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. |
| • | To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. |
| • | To become dull or stupid. |
