Meaning of Dullness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being slow of understanding things.
   uncountable, usually
2. The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
   uncountable, usually
3. Lack of interest or excitement.
   uncountable, usually
4. The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
   uncountable, usually
5. bluntness.
   uncountable, usually
6. The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
   uncountable, usually
7. Drowsiness.
   archaic, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or Humour, Heaven grant me a double Portion of Dullness—”

“dullness of autumn”

“dullness of sight, or of hearing”

“Prospero: […]Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.”

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