dullness

Roget category 843

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.1. Passive affections

#843. Dullness

noun

dullness, heaviness, flatness — infestivity^† etc. 837, stupidity etc. 499 — want of originality — dearth of ideas.
prose, matter of fact — heavy book, conte a dormir debout [Fr.] — platitude.

verb

be dull etc. adj. — prose, take au serieux [Fr.], be caught napping.
render dull etc. adj. — damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on — fall flat upon the ear.
no joke, serious matter (importance) 642.

adjective

dull, dull as ditch water — unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust — unfunny, unlively^†, logy [U.S.] — unimaginative — insulse^† — dry as dust — prosy, prosing, prosaic — matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless — weary stale flat and unprofitable" [Hamlet]. stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous — melancholic etc. 837 — stolid etc. 499 — plodding.
boring, tiresome, tedious etc. 841.

phrase

davus sum non Aedipus^† — deadly dull and boring, DDB.

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