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dull <\/strong>1 <\/strong>S3<\/strong> \/ d\u028cl \/ adjective<\/em> ( comparative <\/em>duller <\/strong>, superlative <\/em>dullest <\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 <\/strong>boring<\/strong> not interesting or exciting :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Life is never dull when<\/em><\/strong> Elizabeth is here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>a dull movie<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>It sounded pretty dull to me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>The weekly meeting tends to be deadly dull<\/em><\/strong> (= very dull ) .<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Last week we had a hurricane. Never a dull moment<\/em><\/strong> running a hotel in the Caribbean (= it\u2019s always interesting or exciting ) .<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In everyday English, people usually say boring<\/strong> rather than dull <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a long, boring<\/em><\/strong> film<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 <\/strong>colour\/light<\/strong> not bright or shiny :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>The bird is dull brown and gray in colour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Her eyes were dull with dark shadows beneath them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>the dull afternoon light<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 <\/strong>weather<\/strong> not bright and with lots of clouds :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Outside the weather was hazy and dull.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>a dull sky<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 <\/strong>pain<\/strong> a dull pain is not severe but does not stop OPP sharp <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>a dull ache<\/em><\/strong> in her lower back<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>The pain was dull but persistent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 <\/strong>sound<\/strong> not clear or loud :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>The gates shut with a dull thud <\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 <\/strong>knife\/blade<\/strong> not sharp SYN blunt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 <\/strong>not intelligent <\/strong>old-fashioned<\/em> not able to think quickly or understand things easily SYN stupid <\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>If you don\u2019t understand then you\u2019re duller than I thought.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 <\/strong>trade<\/strong> if business on the Stock Exchange is dull, few people are buying and selling OPP brisk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 dully <\/strong>adverb <\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>\u2018Well Michael?\u2019 he said dully.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Her stomach ached dully.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 dullness <\/strong>noun<\/em> [ uncountable ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

dull 1 S3 \/ d\u028cl \/ adjective ( comparative duller , superlative dullest ) 1 boring not interesting or exciting : Life is never dull when Elizabeth is here. a dull movie It sounded pretty dull to me. The weekly meeting tends to be deadly dull (= very dull ) . Last week we had …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,13],"tags":[7,18,19,8],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-ielts","category-vocabulary","tag-mindset-for-ielts","tag-mindset-for-ielts-level2","tag-page71","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}