TubeTalkTubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “dull”
Hear “dull” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for dull
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of dull with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Confessions of a recovering micromanager
dull and unimaginative people?
- Definition summary
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce dull
Confessions of a recovering micromanager
dull and unimaginative people?
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “dull”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Bored, depressed, down.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- [Noun]
- (nautical) scupper
- bung-hole
Practice Nearby Words
blunt, ho-hum, humdrum, benumb, sluggish, uninteresting, dumb, drab, numb, lackluster, lacklustre, deadening, lustreless, stupid, mute, tedious, muffled, insensitive, muted, inactive, muffle, dreary, wearisome, tiresome, lusterless, slow, edgeless, irksome, softened, soft, tone down, dim, nonresonant, unsharpened, thumping, dense, heavy, monotonous, matted, thudding, arid, desiccated, desiccate, dampen, damp, cloudy, flat, matt, blunted, boring, matte, pall, mat, bovine, unsaturated, gray, leaden, grey, obtuse, deadened, unreverberant, bored, listless, vapid, trivial, disappointing, unfortunate, sinister, dismal, grim, bleak, depressed, eerie, unapt, unhappy, gloomy, time-consuming, colourless, inconvenient, spooky, lame, sad, bland, dry, bothersome, uninspiring, annoying, pesky, simple, cumbersome, blah, silly, desensitize, burdensome, mitigate, banal, dark, trite, crushed, awkward
Similar Sounds
dull, dle, dul, dulle, dhl, duhl, dell, dill, del, dil, dyl, delle, dille, deal, doll, dial, dale, dual, dole, doyle, dail, dal, dile, dahl, dol, dall, dule, dool, deel, dhole, dayle, daal, daul, deale, duell, deil, diel, dhal, dowl, dael, doil, diehl, dhol, dolle, doel, dyle, dalle, doole, deihl, dowle, deuil, tle, tull, tulle, tyl, ptl, dung, duh, dutch, duel, dah, duller, dulled, addle, dulce, dulls, dowel, dully, dush, duch, adle, dels, dousche, audile, dulse, dha, dda, dirl, dll, doyel, dals, dled, dphil, adl, dli, dusche, adal, dahle, deled, dld, drl, dkl, dlw, dusc, bdl, dcl, dulc, addl