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Synonyms for dullness
dull·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
dullness, obtusenessnoun
the quality of being slow to understand
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bluntness, obtusenessAntonyms:
keenness, asperity, sharpness, brightnessdullnessnoun
the quality of lacking interestingness
"the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
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bluntness, obtusenessAntonyms:
sharpness, brightness, asperity, keennessdullnessnoun
a lack of visual brightness
"the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"
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bluntness, obtusenessAntonyms:
sharpness, asperity, brightness, keennessdullnessnoun
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."
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bluntness, obtusenessAntonyms:
sharpness, asperity, keenness, brightnessdullness, bluntnessnoun
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
"the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
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bluntness, obtusenessAntonyms:
asperity, sharpness, keenness, brightness
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#98452 | dullness | |
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#290675 | obtuseness |
How to use dullness in a sentence?
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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