dullness

dullness
noun
1. the quality of being slow to understand
• Syn: ↑obtuseness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑obtuse (for: ↑obtuseness), ↑dull
• Hypernyms: ↑stupidity
• Hyponyms: ↑oscitancy, ↑oscitance
2. the quality of lacking interestingness
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the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees

• Derivationally related forms: ↑dull
• Hypernyms: ↑uninterestingness
• Hyponyms:
• Attrubites: ↑dull
3. a lack of visual brightness
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the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea

• Ant: ↑brightness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑dull
• Hypernyms: ↑visual property
• Hyponyms:
4. lack of sensibility
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there was a dullness in his heart

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without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it.

• Derivationally related forms: ↑dull
• Hypernyms: ↑unfeelingness, ↑callousness, ↑callosity, ↑hardness, ↑insensibility
5. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
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the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible

• Syn: ↑bluntness
• Ant: ↑sharpness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑blunt (for: ↑bluntness), ↑dull
• Hypernyms: ↑shape, ↑form, ↑configuration, ↑contour, ↑conformation
• Hyponyms: ↑obtuseness

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