Associations to the word «Dullness»

Wiktionary

DULLNESS, noun. The quality of being slow to understand things.
DULLNESS, noun. The quality of being uninteresting.
DULLNESS, noun. The lack of visual brilliance.
DULLNESS, noun. (of an edge) bluntness.

Dictionary definition

DULLNESS, noun. The quality of being slow to understand.
DULLNESS, noun. The quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees".
DULLNESS, noun. A lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea".
DULLNESS, noun. Lack of sensibility; "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.".
DULLNESS, noun. Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates