dullness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dullness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for dullness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dullness n the quality of being slow to understand [syn: dullness, obtuseness] the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees" a lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea" Antonym(s): brightness 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." without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" Synonym(s): dullness, bluntness Antonym(s): asperity, keenness, sharpness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dullness \Dull"ness\, n. The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also {dulness}.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. --Pope.