Antonyms for dullnessdull·ness

Matched Categories

1. • Shape
   • Stupidity
   • Unfeelingness
   • Uninterestingness
   • Visual Property

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1. dullness, obtusenessnoun

   the quality of being slow to understand

   Antonyms:
   keenness, asperity, sharpness, brightness

   Synonyms:
   bluntness, obtuseness

2. dullnessnoun

   the quality of lacking interestingness

   "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"

   Antonyms:
   sharpness, brightness, asperity, keenness

   Synonyms:
   bluntness, obtuseness

3. dullnessnoun

   a lack of visual brightness

   "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"

   Antonyms:
   sharpness, asperity, brightness, keenness

   Synonyms:
   bluntness, obtuseness

4. dullnessnoun

   lack of sensibility

   "there was a dullness in his heart"; "without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."

   Antonyms:
   sharpness, asperity, keenness, brightness

   Synonyms:
   bluntness, obtuseness

5. dullness, bluntnessnoun

   without sharpness or clearness of edge or point

   "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"

   Antonyms:
   asperity, sharpness, keenness, brightness

   Synonyms:
   bluntness, obtuseness

How to use dullness in a sentence?

1. Dorothy Parker:

   Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

2. Samuel Foote:

   He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

3. Edith Sitwell:

   Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

4. Harold Rosenberg:

   No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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