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Meanings of dull in English
Antonyms
Examples for "bright"
Examples for "bright"
1
And he said the future of American business and markets is bright.
2
They were all healthy young people, with bright minds and good values.
3
In an instant you forget; the sky is bright; the blood pounds.
4
However, beyond the bright lights of New York visibility was not good.
5
At just 44 years of age, his future remained bright, they concluded.
1
Sports rights are also drawing lively interest in other parts of Europe.
2
As a result, research like this always results in some lively discussion.
3
The young priest developed a lively student discussion and social action group.
4
The drums in the finishing-shop hummed merrily their lively song of labor.
5
To date they are delighted with the lively questions from young visitors.
Usage of dull in English
1
Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
2
And in one as in the other the finer susceptibilities grow dull.
3
As so often with the environment, it's the dull things that work.
4
You sit dull in the market all day; you want a feast.
5
Europe's belief in a dull but safe civilisation is its main attraction.
6
This shortened, low-activity period is also less likely to dull public memory.
7
Sometimes he is dressed in dull gray and sometimes in rusty red.
8
The idea suffocated her; each sob drew from her a dull moan.
9
The lazy native streets were still dull with the end of labor.
10
The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding.
11
The sentries' boots dull with cold; their ceremonial breastplates turn to tin.
12
The act was of his own conception; the dull dog was ambitious.
13
Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
14
It is very dull to stay all the evening in the enclosure.
15
I could hardly believe that dull thud issued from my own body.
16
And so the young pup had to stay in the dull stall.
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Dull through the time
Dull across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
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