dull

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /dʌl/    美 /dʌl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A noose of string, metal wire, or hair used to snare an animal, especially a fish. Ireland,Southern-US,archaic,obsolete
    — Play fair, boys. No dynamite nor "dulling." The deadly "dull," or wire noose, is a fatal weapon against a trout.
动词 v.
  1. To fish (or snare an animal, especially a fish) with such a noose. Ireland,Southern-US,archaic,obsolete
    — I hope that the barbarous practice called dulling has gone out of fashion.
  2. To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. transitive
    — Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
  3. To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. transitive
    — He drinks to dull the pain.
  4. To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. intransitive
    — A razor will dull with use.
  5. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
    — All these knives are dull.
  2. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
    — He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.
  3. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
    — Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.
  4. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
    — She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
  5. Sluggish, listless.
    — This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
  6. Bored, depressed, down.
    — I felt dull all day.
  7. Cloudy, overcast.
    — It's a dull day.
  8. Insensible; unfeeling.
    — Think me not / So dull a devil to forget the loss / Of such a matchless wife.
  9. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
    — the dull earth
  10. Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
    — Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.
  11. Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)

词形变化

duller comparative dullest superlative dul alternative dulle alternative dulls present,singular,third-person dulling participle,present dulled participle,past dulled past dul alternative dulle alternative dulls plural dulls present,singular,third-person dulling participle,present dulled participle,past dulled past

词汇关系

近义词
dullen
衍生词
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相关词
bedole Dollard

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”), from Proto-West Germanic *dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz, from earlier *dwulaz, a variant of *dwalaz (“stunned, mad, foolish, misled”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-, *dʰewel- (“to dim, dull, cloud, make obscure, swirl, whirl”).
Cognate with Scots dull, doll (“slow to understand or hear, deaf, dull”), North Frisian dol (“rash, unthinking, giddy, flippant”), Dutch dol (“crazy, mad, insane”), Low German dul, dol (“mad, silly, stupid, fatuous”), German toll (“crazy, mad, wild, fantastic”), Danish dval (“foolish, absurd”), Icelandic dulur (“secretive, silent”), West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).
词源 2
Probably from Irish dul, dol (“loop, noose, snare”).
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