Dullness

Definition

dull /dʌl/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ပ်င္းစရာေကာင္းေသာ။ စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာ မေကာင္းေသာ။ ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္။ a rather dull diet ❍ his dull suburban existence ❍ The conference was deadly dull. ❍ There's never a dull moment when John's around. ၂။ မၾကည္လင္ေသာ။ မိႈင္းေသာ။ (အေရာင္) မြဲေသာ။ a dull colour/glow ❍ dull-looking hair ❍ The day began grey and dull. ❍ He heard a dull thud upstairs. အေပၚထပ္က ဒုတ္ခနဲ ခပ္အုပ္အုပ္အသံတစ္ခ်က္ ၾကားလိုက္ရတယ္။ ၃။ ထိုင္း ေသာ။ ထံုေသာ။ a dull pupil/class/mind. ၄။ စူးေသာ၊ ေအာင့္ေသာ (နာက်င္မႈ)။ a dull ache. ၅။ (အေရာင္းအဝယ္) ပါးေသာ၊ ထိုင္းေသာ။ There's always a dull period after the January sales. v မိွန္သြားသည္။ ေလ်ာ့ေစသည္။ သက္သာေစသည္။ The gleam of the ivory had dulled. ❍ She took drugs to dull the pain. ❍ ( fig ) Time had dulled the edge of his grief. dullness n [U] dully /'dʌlli/ adj : ‘I suppose so,’ she said dully. ❍ His leg ached dully.

Examples

1. Life in a small village can be very dull.
2. A dull lecture
3. Hair that looks dull and lifeless
4. A dull colour
5. She had a dull expression on her face.
6. I felt a dull ache in my stomach.
7. There was a dull thud from the flat above.
8. He really is the dullest boy in the class.