dull
suomi-englanti sanakirjadull englannista suomeksi
synkeä
heikentää
samea
tylsä, pitkäveteinen
vaimea
hiljainen
himmentää
harmaa
tylsyttää
käydä tylsäksi
heikko
typerä
kuollut
Verbi
Substantiivi
dull englanniksi
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Boring; not exciting or interesting.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=S. R. Crockett|title=A Cry Across the Black Water
Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
''a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; (nowrap) mirror''
{{RQ:Belloc Lowndes Lodger|I|0016
Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(RQ:Allingham China Governess) What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
(RQ:KJV)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
Insensible; unfeeling.
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
(RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona)
''c. 1857, (w), ''Table-Talk''
- As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
''Years of misuse have dulled the tools.''
(RQ:Bacon War with Spain) dulled their swords.
To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
''He drinks to dull the pain.''
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
{{quote-text|en|year=1850|author=Richard Chenevix Trench|title=Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
''A razor will dull with use.''
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
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