Dictionary entry details
• DULLNESS (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being slow to understand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
dullness; obtuseness
Hypernyms ("dullness" is a kind of...):
stupidity (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dullness"):
oscitance; oscitancy (drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning)
Meaning:
The quality of lacking interestingness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees
Hypernyms ("dullness" is a kind of...):
uninterestingness (inability to capture or hold one's interest)
Attribute:
dull (lacking in liveliness or animation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dullness"):
boringness; dreariness; insipidity; insipidness (extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest)
tediousness; tedium; tiresomeness (dullness owing to length or slowness)
jejuneness; jejunity; tameness; vapidity; vapidness (the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated)
Meaning:
A lack of visual brightness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea
Hypernyms ("dullness" is a kind of...):
visual property (an attribute of vision)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dullness"):
dimness; subduedness (the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity)
flatness; lusterlessness; lustrelessness; mat; matt; matte (the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss)
Antonym:
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
Meaning:
Lack of sensibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
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.
Hypernyms ("dullness" is a kind of...):
callosity; callousness; hardness; insensibility; unfeelingness (devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness)
Meaning:
Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bluntness; dullness
Context example:
the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible
Hypernyms ("dullness" is a kind of...):
configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dullness"):
obtuseness (the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point)
Antonym:
sharpness (harshness of manner)
sharpness (thinness of edge or fineness of point)
