Dull synonyms | Another word for dull

Assuage, banal, colourless, bleak, faint, blunt, apathetic, boneheaded, allay, and alleviate are all synonyms for dull. Sunny and bright are these antonyms of dull. And here are another 227 synonyms for dull.

Dull Synonyms

1. uninteresting

  • Banal
  • Bland
  • Boring
  • Characterless
  • Colourless
  • Commonplace
  • Deadly
  • Derivative
  • Dreich
  • Dry as dust
  • Dry
  • Dull as dishwater
  • Dullsville
  • Featureless
  • Flat
  • Humdrum
  • Insipid
  • Lacking excitement
  • Lacking interest
  • Lacking variation
  • Lacking variety
  • Lifeless
  • Monotonous
  • No great shakes
  • Not up to much
  • Pedestrian
  • Plodding
  • Ponderous
  • Prosaic
  • Run-of-the-mill
  • Soulless
  • Tedious
  • Tiresome
  • Uneventful
  • Unexciting
  • Unimaginative
  • Uninspiring
  • Uninteresting
  • Unoriginal
  • Unremarkable
  • Unstimulating
  • Wearisome
  • Ornery

2. drab

  • Colourless
  • Dark
  • Drab
  • Dreary
  • Faded
  • Lacklustre
  • Lustreless
  • Muddy
  • Muted
  • Pale
  • Sombre
  • Subdued
  • Toned down
  • Washed out
  • Watery
  • Subfusc

3. overcast

  • Bleak
  • Cloudy
  • Dark
  • Dim
  • Dismal
  • Dreary
  • Gloomy
  • Grey
  • Leaden
  • Louring
  • Murky
  • Overcast
  • Sombre
  • Sunless
  • Subfusc

4. muffled

  • Faint
  • Indistinct
  • Muffled
  • Muted
  • Quiet
  • Smothered
  • Soft
  • Softened
  • Stifled
  • Suppressed

5. blunt

  • Blunt
  • Blunted
  • Dulled
  • Edgeless
  • Not sharp
  • Unkeen
  • Unsharpened
  • Worn down

6. slack

  • Apathetic
  • Asthenic
  • Depressed
  • Dopey
  • Dozy
  • Drowsy
  • Enervated
  • Fatigued
  • Flat
  • Heavy
  • Inactive
  • Inert
  • Languid
  • Lethargic
  • Listless
  • Logy
  • Neurasthenic
  • Quiet
  • Slack
  • Sleepy
  • Slow-moving
  • Slow
  • Sluggish
  • Somnolent
  • Stagnant
  • Static
  • Tired
  • Torpid
  • Unenergetic
  • Weary
  • Yawny
  • Lymphatic

7. unintelligent

  • Boneheaded
  • Bovine
  • Brain-dead
  • Brainless
  • Chuckleheaded
  • Cretinous
  • Daft
  • Dense
  • Dim-witted
  • Dim
  • Doltish
  • Dopey
  • Dozy
  • Dull-witted
  • Dumb
  • Dunce-like
  • Dunderheaded
  • Empty-headed
  • Fat-headed
  • Foolish
  • Half-witted
  • Idiotic
  • Imbecilic
  • Lamebrained
  • Mindless
  • Moronic
  • Muttonheaded
  • Not the full shilling
  • Obtuse
  • Pig-ignorant
  • Slow on the uptake
  • Slow-witted
  • Slow
  • Soft in the head
  • Stolid
  • Stupid
  • Thick
  • Unintelligent
  • Vacuous
  • Witless
  • Wooden-headed
  • Thick as two short planks

8. lessen

  • Allay
  • Alleviate
  • Assuage
  • Bedim
  • Benumb
  • Blacken
  • Bleach
  • Blunt
  • Blur
  • Cast a pall over
  • Cast down
  • Crush
  • Dampen
  • Darken
  • Daze
  • Deaden
  • Decolorize
  • Decolour
  • Decrease
  • Depress
  • Desensitize
  • Dim
  • Diminish
  • Drug
  • Ease
  • Etiolate
  • Extinguish
  • Fade
  • Fog
  • Lessen
  • Lower
  • Mitigate
  • Moderate
  • Mute
  • Narcotize
  • Numb
  • Obscure
  • Obtund
  • Pale
  • Palliate
  • Put a damper on
  • Reduce
  • Render insensitive
  • Sap
  • Sedate
  • Shadow
  • Shake
  • Smother
  • Soften
  • Soothe
  • Stun
  • Stupefy
  • Suppress
  • Take the edge off
  • Tone down
  • Torpefy
  • Tranquillize
  • Veil
  • Wash out
  • Stifle