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| Sounds | dah'lnahs |
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| Rhymes | abacus, abruptness, absoluteness, and 1127 more rhymes in ahs... |
| Meaning | The quality of being slow to understand. |
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| Synonyms | obtuseness |
| Broader | stupidity |
| Narrower | oscitancy, oscitance |
| Adjectives | dull; dull |
| Meaning | The quality of lacking interestingness. |
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| Examples | "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees" |
| Broader | uninterestingness |
| Narrower | boringness, dreariness, insipidness, insipidity; tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness; jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
| Attributes | dull |
| Adjectives | dull; dull; dull |
| Meaning | A lack of visual brightness. |
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| Examples | "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea" |
| Contrary | brightness |
| Broader | visual property |
| Narrower | dimness, subduedness; flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte |
| Adjectives | dull; dull; dull; dull; dull |
| Meaning | Lack of sensibility. |
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| Examples | "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 | unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility |
| Adjectives | dull; dull; dull |
| Meaning | Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point. |
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| Examples | "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" |
| Synonyms | bluntness |
| Contrary | asperity, sharpness; sharpness, keenness |
| Broader | shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation |
| Narrower | obtuseness |
| Adjectives | dull |
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