Dictionary Entry
dullness
dullness is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
- 2noun
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
"the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
Synonyms
- 3noun
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."
- 4noun
a lack of visual brightness
"the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"
- 5noun
the quality of lacking interestingness
"the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
- 6noun
the quality of being slow to understand
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