dull

Etymology
From, (also , , ), from , from , from , from earlier , a variant of , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).

Adjective

 * 1) Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
 * 2) Boring; not exciting or interesting.
 * 3) Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
 * a dull fire or lamp;&emsp; a dull red or yellow;&emsp; a dull mirror
 * 1) Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
 * 2) Sluggish, listless.
 * 3) Cloudy, overcast.
 * 4) Insensible; unfeeling.
 * 5) Heavy; lifeless; inert.
 * 6) * c. 1857',, Table-Talk
 * As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
 * 1)  Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
 * 2) Not clear, muffled.
 * 1) Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
 * 2) Sluggish, listless.
 * 3) Cloudy, overcast.
 * 4) Insensible; unfeeling.
 * 5) Heavy; lifeless; inert.
 * 6) * c. 1857',, Table-Talk
 * As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
 * 1)  Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
 * 2) Not clear, muffled.
 * 1) Cloudy, overcast.
 * 2) Insensible; unfeeling.
 * 3) Heavy; lifeless; inert.
 * 4) * c. 1857',, Table-Talk
 * As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
 * 1)  Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
 * 2) Not clear, muffled.
 * 1) * c. 1857',, Table-Talk
 * As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
 * 1)  Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
 * 2) Not clear, muffled.
 * 1) Not clear, muffled.

Translations

 * Acehnese: tumpoi
 * Arabic: كَلِيل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: тупы́
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: sløv
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: ношка
 * Esperanto: malakra
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: boto, zocho,, esnafrado
 * Georgian:, გაულესავი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀμβλύς
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: tyltsä, nyrhi, tylppä
 * Interlingua: obtuse
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: tãpi
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کول
 * Latgalian: naoss
 * Latin: hebes, retūsus
 * Latvian: truls, neass
 * Luxembourgish: stompeg
 * Macedonian: тап
 * Maori: pūhuki, pūhoi
 * Moksha: ношка
 * Navajo: doo deení da
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sløv
 * Nynorsk: sløv, slø
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rapa Nui: puni
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ту̑п
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: tupý
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: tupy
 * Upper Sorbian: tupy
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sundanese: mentud
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: тупи́й
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon: diswijhî
 * Zealandic: bot
 * Zulu:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: fádní
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: enuiga
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: keðiligur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, eslamiada, , anódina
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: מְשַׁעֲמֵם
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Luxembourgish: fad,
 * Maori: mākihakiha, takeo, hihikokore
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , , sem graça
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , , , , sin gracia
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tuhm
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: მკრთალი, მქრქალი
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: neamhlonrach, modartha
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: blāvs, nespodrs
 * Luxembourgish: blatzeg
 * Maori: waimeha, horotea , pīatakore, mōhanihani
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: śamny
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Zazaki: mat


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: qanmaz
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: malbrila
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: nõme
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μωρός
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: brūtus, fatuus, idiōta,
 * Luxembourgish:, topeg
 * Maori: mātotoru, rare, pūhoi, pongipongi
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Zazaki: nêxapêyen


 * Finnish:
 * Maori: takurutu, pōngenge, pōrori, pōuruuru, pūhoi


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Irish: modartha
 * Italian: ,
 * Luxembourgish: flemmseg
 * Maori: kēkēao, kōngū, kōruki, whakaipuipu, kōipuipu, kōruru
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Ottoman Turkish: صاغر
 * Spanish:


 * Irish:
 * Latin:

Verb

 * 1)  To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
 * Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
 * 1)  To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
 * He drinks to dull the pain.
 * 1)  To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
 * A razor will dull with use.
 * 1) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
 * 1)  To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
 * A razor will dull with use.
 * 1) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: tylsyttää, tylstyttää
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀμβλύνω
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: sløve
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Maori: whakahinamoe
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: притъпявам се
 * Finnish:, tylstyä
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

Etymology
, from, diminutive from.

Noun

 * 1)  scupper
 * 2) bung-hole
 * 1) bung-hole

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) method