关于Dull的意思和用法的提问

A: It means something is boring or not colorful.

“Grey is a dull color.”
“The town is dull.” (This can mean the town is boring or the colors are not bright and colorful.)
“My homework is dull.”
“That dull street corner by the supermarket.”

A: It can be used to describe something as boring.
"What a dull topic of conversation"
It can also be used to describe an object that should be shiny, but looks less shiny or foggy.
"The mirror is dull, it is hard to see my reflection in it."
Alternatively it can be a slang term used to call someone stupid.
"They're a bit dull..."

A: boring or not shinny. "She had dull energy" "That gold necklace looks dull"

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A: Boring, uninteresting. Or, the opposite of sharp.

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okay. ‘dull’ can have multiple meanings…

1: something is boring or uninteresting.
ex. “This report is so dull. It isn’t creative in the least!”
2: something is blunt.
ex. “My pencil is dull. Does anyone have a pencil sharpener?”
3. something is muffled or hard to hear.
ex. “This sound is so dull. How can you hear it?”

~hope this helps☺️

A: Dull can mean:
a) The opposite of bright/colourful
b) Not sharp: blunt
c) Boring


‘Yellow is a bright colour and grey is a dull colour’

‘All my knives have gotten dull’

‘Mr Johnson is really boring, he’s so dull’

Person A: ‘The sky is grey today’
Person B: ‘Yeah it’s really dull’

A: This pencil is very dull.
Your poster is dull.

A: It is quite a negative expression and usually means "boring".

"she is so dull", "this party is dull", "your book was awfully dull".

Less commonly it can mean something that is not shiny. "The mirror was dull because I had not cleaned it for a long time".

A: If a knife is blunt, its blade is too thick to cut anymore. It needs to be sharpened. Dull means incapable to cutting.
Andrew Borden was struck in the head 11 times by a blunt hatchet in 1892.
If you cut paper with my good sewing scissors, you'll make them dull!

A: dull can be used in many ways..it can mean boring, soft or light,dumb,etc.

whereas corny is very close to the word nerdy..
And corny is informal adjective whereas dull can be used both in formal as well in informal situations. One more thing dull can be used as both adjective and verb.

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A: all of these words can relate to each other, but the difference is the context in which they're used.

A colour can be dull or boring but not mundane or tedious.

A person can be dull, boring and tedious but not mundane. Their life could be mundane.

A: dull and boring can mean the same thing. but dull can be used for other things also. example: "that color is dull" meaning its not bright or doesnt look good.
or
"the conversation was dull" does mean the same as "the conversation was boring"
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A: dull is にぎやかじゃない。no life.
boring is つまらない。退屈

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A: dull

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A: The 'u' sound in dull and numb are the same.
The b in numb is silent. (num)
Mock: the hard "k" and the end has a little breath after it

A: The way I pronounce it, it's as if there is no vowel sound between the "d" and the "l" sound. In other words, the L sound replaces the vowel altogether (although there is an ambiguous vowel that happens during the nearly-instantaneous transition to the L sound).

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