Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Lack of excitement or interest
adj
With air that is stale.
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mentally retarded
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(of bones or joints) Stiffened or inflexible.
n
The quality of being benighted.
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(informal) Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
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Bleak, cold; bare, naked.
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(figuratively) Lacking interest; boring; dull.
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The characteristic of being bleak.
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The state or quality of being blindfolded.
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Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
n
Something dull or uninteresting.
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Marked by boredom; boring; uninteresting
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(simile, informal) Very boring; devoid of interest.
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slowness of thought (or mental activity)
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(rare) Of inferior mind or intellect.
n
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
adv
In a cold-blooded manner.
n
The relative lack of heat.
adj
Mindless, plodding, or passive; stultifying
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Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
n
Tedium, or the quality of being boring
n
The quality of being deafening.
n
The boredom of a dull PowerPoint presentation, normally consisting of simple bulleted lists and conventional graphics.
n
(psychology) A hereditary condition characterized by low intelligence in which one can understand words but not abstract concepts.
adj
(of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
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(poetic, rare) Deprived of blooms or (figuratively) of youthful freshness.
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Boring, uninteresting.
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Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.
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Intellectually slow.
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boring; dull
adj
Old and withered, with connotations of lacking sexual potency or appeal.
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A dull, boring or pedantic speaker or writer.
n
A dull, uninteresting person.
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Dim-witted, stupid, unintelligent
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Synonym of dullardry
n
dullness, stupidity
n
The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
n
A state or condition of boredom or disinterest.
adj
Barely perceptible; not bright, or loud, or sharp
n
Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
n
(obsolete) Liability to error and sin; frailty.
n
The state of being frail; frailty; weakness.
n
(uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
adj
Of eyes, glistening but not focusing on anything in particular; showing no liveliness.
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desultory
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Exhibiting low intelligence, as if having only half a brain.
adj
(Malaysia, Singapore, Singlish, colloquial) Careless; shoddy.
adj
(archaic, rare) dim-witted; lacking intelligence
adj
Having a low intelligence; dim-witted.
adj
obtuse; dull
adj
Lacking variety or excitement; dull; boring.
n
Synonym of humdrumness
n
The quality of being humdrum; mundanity.
n
(archaic) Inability to sleep; insomnia.
n
The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
n
The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
n
The quality of being lazy
adj
Having a feeble or weak intellect.
n
(uncountable) Livor mortis, suggillation.
adj
(American spelling) Dull; not reflective of light.
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(euphemistic) Having low intelligence.
adj
(idiomatic) Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.
adj
Alternative form of mind-numbing [(idiomatic) Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.]
n
Anything that mutes or deadens sound.
adj
(of color) Subdued.
adj
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
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obtuseness
adj
Vague; ill-defined; unclear.
adj
(of a person) Behaving in a dull way; boring, tedious.
adj
(psychology, now offensive, dated) Specifically, having an IQ below 70.
adj
Dull; drab; boring; typical; not exciting.
adj
(archaic) Lacking sapidity; tasteless; flavorless.
adj
(archaic or literary, poetic) Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.
n
The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.
n
The state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.
adj
gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful
n
(uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.
n
The state of being slow-witted
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The quality or state of being slow.
n
The quality of being sluggardly.
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The quality of being a sluggard.
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The quality of being slumberous.
adj
Thoroughly unimpressive; mediocre.
adj
Not bright or intense.
n
A reduction in either mental or physical capacity.
n
(obsolete) deafness
n
(idiomatic, figuratively, usually humorous) An unknown location.
adv
In a torpid way or manner.
adj
Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
n
A low state of the physical faculties.
adj
Not dull; sharp.
adj
Somewhat vague.
adj
Lifeless, dull, or banal.
adj
Alternative form of vertically challenged [(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Short.]
adj
(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

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