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n. - Without sharpness of edge or point; A lack of visual brightness; The quality of lacking interestingness; The quality of being slow to understand.

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  • Adjective : a dull knife. ,a dull sermon. ,a dull day; a dull sound. ,a dull day in the stock market. ,a dull pain
  • You are sometimes wearisome and wearied; you call your dulness melancholy.
  • Perhaps one ought not to use the word dulness, because it may be misunderstood.
  • Now I know that the idea of dulness or discomfort at Christmas is a very improper one, particularly in a story.
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