dull
adjective
not sharp; blunt.
dulness
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a word derived from
dull.
Example Sentences
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I must watch this ghastly countenance—these blue, still lips forbidden to unclose—these eyes now shut, now opening, now wandering through the room, now fixing on me, and ever glazed with the dulness of horror.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
He had expected dulness, but nothing so terrible as this promised to be.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
Respiration as well as circulation is embarrassed, and there is a marked fulness and dulness of the front wall of the chest to the left of the breast-bone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
Partly on all these changes was Mr. Cranmer meditating as they drove back to Lower House in the dulness of an autumn afternoon.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
I feared her illness might be caused from dulness or ennui.
From It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood
