Dull
[dʌl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make less lively or vigorous; 'Middle age dulled her appetite for travel'.
(verb.) become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; 'the varnished table top dulled with time'.
(verb.) make dull in appearance; 'Age had dulled the surface'.
(verb.) make dull or blunt; 'Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge'.
(adj.) (of business) not active or brisk; 'business is dull (or slow)'; 'a sluggish market' .
(adj.) emitting or reflecting very little light; 'a dull glow'; 'dull silver badly in need of a polish'; 'a dull sky' .
(adj.) (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; 'dull greens and blues' .
(adj.) darkened with overcast; 'a dark day'; 'a dull sky'; 'the sky was leaden and thick' .
(adj.) not having a sharp edge or point; 'the knife was too dull to be of any use' .
(adj.) not keenly felt; 'a dull throbbing'; 'dull pain' .
(adj.) lacking in liveliness or animation; 'he was so dull at parties'; 'a dull political campaign'; 'a large dull impassive man'; 'dull days with nothing to do'; 'how dull and dreary the world is'; 'fell back into one of her dull moods' .
(adj.) being or made softer or less loud or clear; 'the dull boom of distant breaking waves'; 'muffled drums'; 'the muffled noises of the street'; 'muted trumpets' .
(adj.) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; 'the dull thud'; 'thudding bullets' .
(adj.) blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; 'a dull gaze'; 'so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her'- Willa Cather .
編輯:兰尼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
(superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
(superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.
(superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
(superl.) 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.
(v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
(v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
(v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
(v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
(v. i.) To become dull or stupid.
錄入:李莉斯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Stupid, stolid, doltish, blockish, brutish, unintelligent, unintellectual, shallow, blunt-witted.[2]. Apathetic, insensible, unimpassioned, passionless, dead, callous.[3]. Inert, inactive, lifeless, inanimate, heavy, sluggish, slow, torpid.[4]. Blunt, obtuse, not sharp.[5]. Gloomy, sad, dismal, cheerless.[6]. Dim, obscure, not bright, not vivid.[7]. Tedious, wearisome, tiresome, uninteresting.
v. a. [1]. Blunt, make blunt.[2]. Stupefy, benumb, deaden, paralyze, obtund, hebetate, make or render insensible, render callous, make obtuse.[3]. Depress, dishearten, discourage, dispirit, deject, make melancholy, make sad or dejected.[4]. Quiet, allay, moderate, assuage, mitigate, alleviate, soften.[5]. Sully, tarnish.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stupid, stolid, doltish, insensible, callous, heavy, gloomy, dismal, cloudy,turbid, opaque, dowdy, sluggish, sad, tiresome, commonplace, dead
ANT:Sharp, clever, lively, animated, sensible, cheerful, exhilarating, brightness,transparent, brilliant, burnished
手打:凯勒
解釋/意思:
adj. slow of hearing of learning or of understanding: insensible: without life or spirit: slow of motion: drowsy: sleepy: sad: downcast: cheerless: not bright or clear: cloudy: dim obscure: obtuse: blunt.—v.t. to make dull or stupid: to blunt: to damp: to cloud.—v.i. to become dull.—n. Dull′ard a dull and stupid person: a dunce.—adjs. Dull′-brained (Shak.) of dull brain or intellect: stupid; Dull′-browed of gloomy brow or look; Dull′-eyed (Shak.) having eyes dull or wanting expression; Dull′ish somewhat dull: wearisome.—ns. Dull′ness Dul′ness the stale or quality of being dull.—adjs. Dull′-sight′ed; Dull′-wit′ted; Dull′y somewhat dull.—adv. Dull′y.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The light was dull; the distance was dim. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- If a man of my cunning cannot circumvent this dull-headed— Cautious. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- When she sang, every note thrilled in his dull soul, and tingled through his huge frame. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A shirt, for example, must not be discolored by perspiration, nor a waist faded by washing, nor a carpet dulled by sweeping with a dampened broom. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Her Majesty, who looks unusually sad to-night (His Majesty sitting dulled with the day's hunting), is told that the sight of it would cheer her. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was fainter and duller. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- There was something wanting; Briarfield was duller. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Sunday evening was, if possible, duller even than the Saturday evening. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- If he had not known it before, he would have known it then, though he had been a much duller man than he was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He wanted to go back to the dullest conservatism, to the most stupid of conventional people. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was not the dullest part of this goad in its galling of Bradley Headstone, that he had made it himself in a moment of incautious anger. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Little Mowcher would have as much need to live, if she was the bitterest and dullest of pigmies; but she couldn't do it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Hill-street is, I think, the dullest street in all London, do you know, Miss Wilson. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The shock dulls the pain; but this is all right, you have nothing to worry about if it doesn't infect and it rarely does now. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
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