Dull Synonyms

1. uninteresting

• wearisome
• unstimulating
• unremarkable
• unoriginal
• uninteresting
• uninspiring
• unimaginative
• unexciting
• uneventful
• tiresome
• tedious
• soulless
• run-of-the-mill
• prosaic
• ponderous
• plodding
• pedestrian
• ornery
• not up to much
• no great shakes
• monotonous
• lifeless
• lacking variety
• lacking variation
• lacking interest
• lacking excitement
• insipid
• humdrum
• flat
• featureless
• dullsville
• dull as dishwater
• dry as dust
• dry
• dreich
• derivative
• deadly
• commonplace
• colourless
• characterless
• boring
• bland
• banal

2. drab

• watery
• washed out
• toned down
• subfusc
• subdued
• sombre
• pale
• muted
• muddy
• lustreless
• lacklustre
• faded
• dreary
• drab
• dark
• colourless

3. overcast

• sunless
• subfusc
• sombre
• overcast
• murky
• louring
• leaden
• grey
• gloomy
• dreary
• dismal
• dim
• dark
• cloudy
• bleak

4. muffled

• suppressed
• stifled
• softened
• soft
• smothered
• quiet
• muted
• muffled
• indistinct
• faint

5. blunt

• worn down
• unsharpened
• unkeen
• not sharp
• edgeless
• dulled
• blunted
• blunt

6. slack

• yawny
• weary
• unenergetic
• torpid
• tired
• static
• stagnant
• somnolent
• sluggish
• slow-moving
• slow
• sleepy
• slack
• quiet
• neurasthenic
• lymphatic
• logy
• listless
• lethargic
• languid
• inert
• inactive
• heavy
• flat
• fatigued
• enervated
• drowsy
• dozy
• dopey
• depressed
• asthenic
• apathetic

7. unintelligent

• wooden-headed
• witless
• vacuous
• unintelligent
• thick as two short planks
• thick
• stupid
• stolid
• soft in the head
• slow on the uptake
• slow-witted
• slow
• pig-ignorant
• obtuse
• not the full shilling
• muttonheaded
• moronic
• mindless
• lamebrained
• imbecilic
• idiotic
• half-witted
• foolish
• fat-headed
• empty-headed
• dunderheaded
• dunce-like
• dumb
• dull-witted
• dozy
• dopey
• doltish
• dim-witted
• dim
• dense
• daft
• cretinous
• chuckleheaded
• brainless
• brain-dead
• bovine
• boneheaded

8. lessen

• wash out
• veil
• tranquillize
• torpefy
• tone down
• take the edge off
• suppress
• stupefy
• stun
• stifle
• soothe
• soften
• smother
• shake
• shadow
• sedate
• sap
• render insensitive
• reduce
• put a damper on
• palliate
• pale
• obtund
• obscure
• numb
• narcotize
• mute
• moderate
• mitigate
• lower
• lessen
• fog
• fade
• extinguish
• etiolate
• ease
• drug
• diminish
• dim
• desensitize
• depress
• decrease
• decolour
• decolorize
• deaden
• daze
• darken
• dampen
• crush
• cast down
• cast a pall over
• blur
• blunt
• bleach
• blacken
• benumb
• bedim
• assuage
• alleviate
• allay