Dull - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 11/03/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Dull.

4 letter answer(s) to dull

BLAH
  1. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
DRAB
  1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  2. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  3. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
  4. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
  5. of a light brownish green color
SLOW
  1. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
  2. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"
  3. at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"
  4. become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
  5. cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
  6. lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
  7. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"
  8. of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"
  9. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb

6 letter answer(s) to dull

BORING
  1. cause to be bored
  2. make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
  3. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
  4. the act of drilling
  5. the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum

3 letter answer(s) to dull

DRY
  1. (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat"
  2. (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"
  3. a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
  4. become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"
  5. free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
  6. having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin"
  7. having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"
  8. humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
  9. lacking i

5 letter answer(s) to dull

HOHUM
LEADY
  1. Resembling lead.
VAPID
  1. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
  2. lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"

7 letter answer(s) to dull

HUMDRUM
  1. not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "
  2. tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
  3. the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

10 letter answer(s) to dull

LACKLUSTER
  1. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
  2. lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
LACKLUSTRE
  1. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
  2. lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"

13 letter answer(s) to dull

UNINTERESTING
  1. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
  2. characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"

8 letter answer(s) to dull

UNLIVELY

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Dull'

"Been there, done that" f
10 miles per hour, say
Apply brakes to
Arid
Avoiding alcohol
Bear eating nothing bland
Black Prince retrospective? Dull pretentious nonsense
Blah
Bor-r-r-r-ring
Bor-r-ring
Boring
Boring noise made by mouth on instrument
Boring noise upset Rupert, expressionless in Glasgow
Boring tool giving off electronic sound
Brake
British holidaymaker initially admits Los Angeles is dull
Brown family member
Champagne classification
Cheerless
Colorless
Contemptuous cry about Liberal claptrap
Curve caution
Dead, so to speak
Dehydrated
Deliberate
Dense
Desiccated
Dingy
Doctor yesterday’s beginning to be teetotal
Doing work with a drill is dull
Drearily dull
Dreary
Dreary poet rejected
Dreary poet returns
Drilling holes is dull
Drink request
Drought-stricken
Dry-as-dust
Dull as dishwater
Dull drink on rather wet island avoided
Dull king captivated by sound of spring
Dull poet from the East
Dull poet is sent up
Dull poet making a comeback
Dull spot around Reading, for example
Dull, insipid, flat
Dull, monotonous
Dull-colored
Dull-witted, one reportedly gin-soaked
Dullsville
Dully factual
Easy to catch, say
Eliciting a "So what?"
Empty, as a well
Ennui-inducing
Evoking an "eh"
Far from exciting
Far from festive
Fish deprived of oxygen out of water
Flat
Flat shortage with curious result
Flavorless
Flipping poor housing close to river's dingy
Forest population giving air displays?
Free from moisture
Frumpy
Glacial
Gradual
Gray
Grayish
Grey flatfish crossing river
Hang out, perhaps
Hardly colorful
Hardly exciting
Hardly spine-tingling
Hardly stimulating
Hardly thrilling
Held up
Hit the brakes
Ho-hum
Humdrum
Humorless
In need of a drink, GP maybe ending in distillery
Insipid
Insipid interior of Puebla Hotel
Instrument accompanying wordless tune is boring
Kind of ice
Lacking brightness, poet is sent up
Lacking color
Lacking colour
Lacking moisture
Lacking pizazz
Lackluster
Lacklustre Eisteddfod winner retired
Leisurely
Lento
Lifeless
Like deserts, several lacking sun
Like few counties nowaday
Like many old water pipes
Like molasses
Like off-season business
Like rush hour traffic
Like some humor
Like some martinis
Like some wells and lectu
Like some wines
Like some wit
Like zinfandel wines
Lose velocity
Low sound on beat failing to generate excitement
Making holes is not interesting
Mediocre little house with bad smell
Milk producer lacks excellent type of 1D
Moistureless
Moving at low speed
Mundane
My parts have an unpleasant smell, okay?
Needing water
No longer producing
Nondescript
Not bright
Not busy
Not fast
Not like April weather
Not moving quickly
Not piquant
Not rushed
Not so hot
Not sweet
Not very busy
Of a dull greenish-brown colour
Parched
Part of tedious speech to the West Bromwich Albion hosts
Pedestrian operating drill
Pigs' group said to lack interest
Plain
Poet turned dull
Pompous talk
Poor reader initially held up - 'It's boring' ...
Pretentious words
Prohibiting drink
Prohibitionist
Prosaic
Put briefly into boiling water, cutting out new cold tripe
Range and district reported in flier
Rather dull sailor put under the doctor
Rattigan's boy without success, lacking speed
Ready to go off-line?
Rich person from Scottish town brought up British
Saharalike
School zone sign
School zone warning
See 16
Shabby poet recalled
Sluggish
Sluggish pig circling pound
Snaillike
Somewhat dense
Taking a long time
Tar on road turned grey
Tardy
Tedious
Teetotal
Teetotaling
Thirsty
To sing with percussion accompaniment is boring
Tortoiselike
Tory hard-liner is dirty, having lost it after split
Totally unexciting
Towel off
Tradesmen finally leaving brand new flat
Traffic sign
Unbuttered
Unexciting
Unhurried
Uninspired
Uninspiring
Uninspiring legend or story ends
Uninspiring Prime Minister, changing direction on government
Uninteresting
Uninteresting doctor meets sailor
Uninteresting house smell
Unsweetened
Use of a drill is unexciting
Victor paid off, being feeble
Virginia mounted diploma in flat
Visually dull
Void of any va-va-voom
Want unpredictable result? How dull!
Waterless
When tripled, et cetera
With not much vermouth
Without vitality
Yawn-inducing
[Yawn!]
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