English synonyms about - contact  

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

dun

noun

1 dun

Horse of a dull brownish grey color.

Roget 805: credit, trust, tick, score, tally, account.    letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; ... show more

2 dun

A color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color:
— She wore dun.

synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown.

verb

1 dun

Treat cruelly.

synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment.

Roget 765: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; ... show more

2 dun

Persistently ask for overdue payment.

3 dun

Cure by salting.

4 dun

Make a dun color.

adjective

1 dun

Of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color.

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. ... show more

Roget 429: uncolored etc. (color) etc. 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, ... show more

Roget 432: gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber, sad, pearly, russet, roan; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: account, annoy, apply pressure, bay, bayard, bedevil, beige, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bill, bill collector, bill of account, bill of lading, blandish, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, buckskin ... show more.

Find more on dun elsewhere: etymology - rhymes - Wikipedia.

debug info: 0.0614