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dullness
noun
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
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ˈdʌl.nəs
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noun
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
“the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible”
noun
lack of sensibility
“there was a dullness in his heart”
noun
a lack of visual brightness
“the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea”
noun
the quality of lacking interestingness
“the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees”
noun
the quality of being slow to understand
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the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible
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.
the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea
the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees
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