dullness
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdʌl.nəs/
dullness (uncountable)
- The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
- The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome.
- Lack of interest or excitement.
- The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
- dullness of autumn
- (of an edge) bluntness.
- The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
- dullness of sight, or of hearing
- (archaic) Drowsiness.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:
- smallcaps Prospero: […] Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:
- French: obtusité
- Russian: тупоумие
- Russian: вя́лость
- Russian: ту́склость
- Russian: затупле́ние
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