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English noun: dullness | |||
| 1. | dullness (cognition) the quality of being slow to understand | ||
| Synonyms | obtuseness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | stupidity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | oscitance, oscitancy | ||
| 2. | dullness (attribute) the quality of lacking interestingness | ||
| Samples | The stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | uninterestingness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | boringness, dreariness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity, tameness, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, vapidity, vapidness | ||
| Attribute | dull | ||
| 3. | dullness (attribute) a lack of visual brightness | ||
| Samples | The brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | visual property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dimness, flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte, subduedness | ||
| Antonyms | brightness | ||
| 4. | dullness (attribute) lack of sensibility | ||
| Samples | 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.. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | callosity, callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness | ||
| 5. | dullness (attribute) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point | ||
| Samples | The dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible. | ||
| Synonyms | bluntness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | obtuseness | ||
| Antonyms | asperity, keenness, sharpness, sharpness | ||
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