Scrabble & Words with friends points
- dull is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 5
- dull is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 5
- dull is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8
Definition of dull
- darkened with overcast (adjective)
Examples
- a dull sky
Synonyms
- leaden
- make numb or insensitive (verb)
Synonyms
- benumb
- blunt
- numb
- become less interesting or attractive (verb)
Synonyms
- pall
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness (adjective)
Examples
- a dull play
- his competent but dull performance
Synonyms
- boring
- deadening
- ho-hum
- irksome
- slow
- tedious
- tiresome
- wearisome
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity (adjective)
Examples
- although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
Synonyms
- dense
- dim
- dumb
- obtuse
- slow
- being or made softer or less loud or clear (adjective)
Examples
- the dull boom of distant breaking waves
Synonyms
- muffled
- muted
- softened
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping (verb)
Synonyms
- damp
- dampen
- muffle
- mute
- tone down
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft (adjective)
Examples
- the dull thud
Synonyms
- thudding
- make dull or blunt (verb)
Examples
- Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
Synonyms
- blunt
- (of business) not active or brisk (adjective)
Examples
- business is dull (or slow)
Synonyms
- slow
- sluggish
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness (verb)
Examples
- the varnished table top dulled with time
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility (adjective)
Examples
- a dull gaze
- so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her
- emitting or reflecting very little light (adjective)
Examples
- a dull glow
- dull silver badly in need of a polish
- a dull sky
- lacking in liveliness or animation (adjective)
Examples
- 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
- make dull in appearance (verb)
Examples
- Age had dulled the surface
- make less lively or vigorous (verb)
Examples
- Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
- not having a sharp edge or point (adjective)
Examples
- the knife was too dull to be of any use
- not keenly felt (adjective)
Examples
- a dull throbbing
- dull pain
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted (adjective)
Examples
- dull greens and blues
See definition of dull in Merriam Webster