Dull synonyms

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

Another word for dull

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, and ornery are all synonyms for dull.

2. drab

Colourless, dark, drab, dreary, faded, lacklustre, lustreless, muddy, muted, pale, sombre, subdued, toned down, washed out, watery, and subfusc are all another word for dull.

3. overcast

Bleak, cloudy, dark, dim, dismal, dreary, gloomy, grey, leaden, louring, murky, overcast, sombre, sunless, and subfusc are all synonyms for dull.

4. muffled

Faint, indistinct, muffled, muted, quiet, smothered, soft, softened, stifled, and suppressed are all another word for dull.

5. blunt

Blunt, blunted, dulled, edgeless, not sharp, unkeen, unsharpened, and worn down are all synonyms for dull.

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, and lymphatic are all another word for dull.

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, and thick as two short planks are all synonyms for dull.

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, and stifle are all another word for dull.

Dull synonym statistics

Dull synonym page has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 6 synonyms with 3 letters and 25 synonyms with 4, 7, and 8 letters. 28 synonyms with 5 letters and 34 synonyms with 6 letters.

20 synonyms with 9 letters and 19 synonyms with 10 letters. 10 synonyms with 11 letters and 8 synonyms with 12 letters. 9 synonyms with 13 letters and 2 synonyms with 14, and 17 letters. 3 synonyms with 15 letters and 1 synonym with 16, and 18 letters. For a total of 218 another word for dull.

Dull sentences

The knife blade is dull now.

The movie was incredibly dull.

His speech was long and dull.

The color seemed too dull today.

Related Words for dull

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    • Synonyms: persecute, oppress
    • Opposites: protector, defender
    • Part of speech: verb
  2. Fully
    • Synonyms: completely, entirely
    • Opposites: partially, nearly
    • Part of speech: adverb
  3. Gullible
    • Synonyms: credulous, over-trusting
    • Opposites: cynical, suspicious
    • Part of speech: adjective
  4. Lullaby
    • Synonyms: Cradle song, sleep song
    • Opposites: wake-up call, alarm
    • Part of speech: noun
  5. Hopefully
    • Synonyms: optimistically, with hope
    • Opposites: pessimistically, doubtfully
    • Part of speech: adverb
  6. Full
    • Synonyms: filled, filled up
    • Opposites: empty, incomplete, selective, partial, vague
    • Part of speech: adjective