She is not bred so dull but she can learn. --Shak.
2. Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing. --Matt. xiii.
15.
O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
--Spenser.
3. Insensible; unfeeling.
Think me not So dull a devil to forget the loss Of
such a matchless wife. -- Beau. & Fl.
4. Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. ``Thy
scythe is dull.'' --Herbert.
5. Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of
color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
6. Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless;
inert. ``The dull earth.'' --Shak.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so
changes of study a dull brain. -- Longfellow.
7. Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety;
uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy;
depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation
or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
Along life's dullest, dreariest walk. -- Keble.
Syn: Lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy;
sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious;
irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. See
{Lifeless}.
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak.
2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the
senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the
sense a while. --Shak.
Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench.
3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls
the mirror.'' --Bacon.
4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to
make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through
continuance. --Hooker.