Dulness

Definition: Dulness

Dulness

Noun

1. The quality of being slow to understand.

2. The quality of lacking interestingness.

3. A lack of visual brightness.

4. Without sharpness of edge or point.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Dulness

Crosswords: Dulness

Books

• The Progress of Dulness Part 1: The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless (Notable American Authors) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

At first it was downright dulness to Emma.

The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Vietnamese 

vẻ xám xịt tính lờ mờ (dullness), vẻ uể oải (dullness), vẻ u ám (dullness), vẻ tẻ ngắt vẻ tối tăm (dullness), vẻ chậm chạp sự ứ đọng (dullness), vẻ ảm đạm (dullness), vẻ âm u (dullness), tính xỉn (dullness), tính mờ đục (dullness, opaqueness), tính không thính (dullness), tính không rõ rệt (doubtfulness, dullness), sự ngu đần (doltishness, dullness, stupidity), sự chậm hiểu (dullness, inapprehensiveness), sự đần độn tính không tinh (dullness), chán ngắt (dull, dullness, dully, long-winded, mouldy, pedestrian, prosaic, tedious, wearied, weary). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dulness": dulnesses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dulses, unless.

-2 letters: duels, dulse, dunes, lends, leuds, ludes, lunes, nudes, sends, sleds, slued, slues, sneds, unled.

-3 letters: dels, dens, duel, dues, dune, duns, elds, ends, lend, lens, less, leud, lude, lues, lune, ness, nude, sels, send, sled, slue, sned, suds, sued, sues, suns, unde, used, uses.

-4 letters: del, den, due, dun, eds, eld.

+1 letter: dullness, loudness.

+2 letters: adultness, boundless, dauntless, delusions, dulnesses, fluidness, laundress, lucidness, luridness, soundless, unblessed, unsaddles, unsolders, woundless.

+3 letters: auslanders, cloudiness, diluteness, doubleness, dullnesses, groundless, groundsels, liquidness, loudnesses, nonplussed, scoundrels, slanderous, splendours, splendrous, unassailed, underclass, undersells.

+4 letters: adultnesses, andalusites, blunderbuss, boundlessly, dauntlessly, disgruntles, disseminule, dolefulness, durableness, dutifulness, endosulfans, fluidnesses, gradualness, heedfulness, languidness, laundresses, lucidnesses, luridnesses, mindfulness, mudslingers, needfulness, nucleosides, sensualized, soundalikes, soundlessly, splendorous, squalidness, sublicensed, sustainedly, unassembled, undisclosed, undissolved, ungodliness, wanderlusts.