Crossword-Solution: DULL 4 letters, 502 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Dull	superl.	Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Dull	superl.	Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Dull	superl.	Insensible; unfeeling.
Dull	superl.	Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
Dull	superl.	Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
Dull	superl.	Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
Dull	superl.	Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
Dull	v. t.	To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
Dull	v. t.	To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Dull	v. t.	To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Dull	v. t.	To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Dull	v. i.	To become dull or stupid.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DULL	anagram	LLUD

We have 502 clues for the answer “DULL”

Clue	Answers
A real yawner	1 answer
Beef-witted	1 answer
Causing yawning	1 answer
Causing yawns, often	1 answer
Devoid of spark.	1 answer
Dishwaterlike	1 answer
Eliciting a yawn	1 answer
Eliciting yawns perhaps	1 answer
Far from vivid	1 answer
Figuratively, like dishwater.	1 answer
Fit to be stropped	1 answer
Hard to cut with	1 answer
Hardly compelling	1 answer
Hardly inspiring	1 answer
In need of honing	1 answer
In need of sharpening	1 answer
In need of whetting	1 answer
Incapable of cutting it?	1 answer
Lacking a sheen	1 answer
Lacking vivacity	1 answer
Like Dishwater Dull as	1 answer
Like certain blades	1 answer
Like lackluster show	1 answer
Like some aches	1 answer
Like watching paint dry	1 answer
Nearly pointless?	1 answer
Needing polish	1 answer
Needing stropping	1 answer
Needing whetting	1 answer
Not sharp, as a knife	1 answer
Not shiny; uninteresting	1 answer
Not too keen	1 answer
Obtund or obtuse	1 answer
Sigh-inducing	1 answer
Snore-inducing	1 answer
Unable to cut it?	1 answer
Uninteresting, like a show	1 answer
Unlikely to cut	1 answer
Word for a playless Jack	1 answer
Yawn-provoking	1 answer
make less lively or vigorous	1 answer
as ___ as life	2 answers
Needing sharpening	2 answers
Without an edge	2 answers
Not acute	2 answers
DEPRIVE of brilliancy	2 answers
Far from bright	2 answers
LACKING fire (of eyes)	2 answers
Lacking sharpness	2 answers
Like a matte finish	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DULL (5)

The stories they told, before it was time for Wendy’s good-night story! Even Slightly tried to tell a story that night, but the beginning was so fearfully dull that it appalled not only the others but himself, and he said gloomily: “Yes, it is a dull beginning.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Idle in his youth was Kwasind, Very listless, dull, and dreamy, Never played with other children, Never fished and never hunted, Not like other children was he; But they saw that much he fasted, Much his Manito entreated, Much besought his Guardian Spirit.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, “O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass.” They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Lou now looks the older of the two; his face is thin and shrewd and wrinkled about the eyes, while Oscar’s is thick and dull.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Such a great ornament as they’d be to him on a dull afternoon, when he’s up in the pulpit lighted by the wax candles! But ’tis impossible, poor man.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with DULL (3)

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some…

David Foster Wallace

... every moment of our life has a purpose, that every action of ours, no matter how dull or routine or trivial it may seem in itself, has a dignity and a worth beyond human understanding... For it means that no moment can be wasted, no opportunity missed, since each has a purpose in man’s life, each has a purpose in God’s plan. Think of your day, today or yesterday. Think of the work you did, the people you met, moment by moment. What did it mean to you- and might it have me…

Walter J. Ciszek

So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

Mark Twain Roughing It, Vol 1

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 145 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).