664 Moby Thesaurus words for "dull":
KO, Laodicean, Olympian, Quaker-colored, Spartan, abate, abeyant,
abrupt, achromatic, achromatize, achromic, acier, affectless,
allay, alleviate, aloof, anemic, anesthetic, anesthetize,
anesthetized, apathetic, appease, arctic, arid, ascetic, ashen,
ashy, asleep, assuage, asthenic, attemper, attenuate, austere,
autistic, backward, bad, baffle, bald, banausic, bank the fire,
bare, barren, bate, bated, becloud, bedaze, bedim, beef-witted,
befog, benumb, benumbed, besot, betwixt and between, blah, blanch,
blank, blase, bleach, blear, blear-witted, bled white, blind,
bloodless, blue, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended,
blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, blurry,
bored, boring, bovine, brainless, broken-record, bromidic,
cadaverous, callous, candid, canescent, cast down, cataleptic,
catatonic, characterless, chasten, chicken, chill, chilly,
chloranemic, chloroform, cinereous, cinerous, cloddish, cloud,
clouded, cloudy, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
coldhearted, colorless, comatose, common, commonplace, constrain,
control, cool, cowardly, cramp, crass, cripple, cushion, damp,
damped, dampen, dampened, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled,
dappled-gray, dark, darken, de-emphasize, dead, deaden,
deaden the pain, deadened, deadly pale, deafen, deathly pale,
debilitate, debilitated, decolor, decolorize, dejected, dense,
depressed, depressing, desensitize, desensitized, detached,
devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish, dimmed, dingy, direct,
discolor, discolored, disedge, disinterested, dismal,
dispassionate, dispirited, doltish, dope, dopey, dormant,
dove-colored, dove-gray, down, downhearted, downplay, drab, draggy,
drain, drain of color, draw the teeth, drearisome, dreary,
drooping, droopy, drug, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull of mind,
dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted,
dulled, dullish, dumb, dun, duncical, dusty, earthbound, ease,
ease matters, edgeless, effete, elephantine, emotionally dead,
emotionless, empty, enervate, enervated, enfeeble, etherize,
etiolate, etiolated, even-tempered, everlasting, eviscerate,
exanimate, exhaust, exhausting, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
exsanguineous, extenuate, fade, faded, fagging, faint, faintish,
fair, fair to middling, faired, fairish, fallow, fat-witted,
fatiguing, feeble, feebleminded, flabby, flaccid, flat, floppy,
foment, foul, frank, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, fume,
ghastly, give relief, glaucescent, glaucous, gloomy, gone, gray,
gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grey,
griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, groggy, gross-headed, gruel,
gutless, haggard, half-witted, hard, hardened, harping, hazy,
heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow, homely,
homespun, hopeless, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, icy, imbecile,
immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient,
imperturbable, impotent, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense,
inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indistinct, inert,
inexcitable, infecund, infertile, inirritable, insensate,
insensible, insensitive, insentient, insipid, insouciant,
insusceptible, inured, invariable, irksome, iron-gray, jaded,
jejune, jog-trot, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lackadaisical,
lackluster, languid, languorous, latent, lay, lay low, lay out,
lead-gray, leaden, lean, lenify, lessen, lethargic, lifeless,
lighten, limber, limp, listless, literal, livid, logy, long-winded,
low-spirited, lowering, lull, lumpish, lurid, lusterless, lustless,
marrowless, mat, matter-of-fact, mealy, mediocre, medium, middling,
mitigate, moderate, modest, modulate, mollify, monotone,
monotonous, moribund, moronic, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy,
muddy, muffle, muffled, mull, mundane, murky, mute, muted,
namby-pamby, narcotize, natural, neat, nerveless, neutral,
nonchalant, nonemotional, nubilous, numb, numbed, numbing,
numskulled, obdurate, objective, obscure, obtund, obtundent,
obtuse, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, opaque, open, ordinary,
out of touch, overcast, overclouded, pad, pale, pale as death,
pale-faced, palliate, pallid, palsy, paralyze, passable,
passionless, passive, pasty, patient, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
pedestrian, peroxide, phlegmatic, pithless, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, play down, plodding, pluckless, poetryless,
pointless, poky, ponderous, pooped, poultice, pour balm into,
pour oil on, powerless, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure,
put to sleep, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, relieve,
repress, resigned, respectable, restrain, retard, retund, rocky,
rounded, rubbery, rustic, sad, sallow, salve, sap, sapless, sated,
sedentary, self-absorbed, severe, shake, shake up, sickly, silver,
silver-gray, silvered, silvery, simple, simple-speaking,
simpleminded, sinewless, singsong, slack, slacken, slake,
slate-colored, slaty, sleeping, sleepy, slow, slow down,
slow-witted, sluggish, slumbering, smoke-gray, smoky, smoldering,
smoothed, smother, smothered, so-so, sober, sober down, soft,
soft-pedal, soften, soften up, softened, solemn, somber, somnolent,
soothe, soporific, sordo, soulless, spare, spineless, spiritless,
spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, staid, standing, stark, static,
steady, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stifle, stifled,
stodgy, stoic, stolid, stone-colored, stop, straightforward,
strengthless, stuffy, stultified, stun, stupe, stupefied, stupefy,
stupid, subdue, subdued, subfusc, sunless, superficial, supine,
suppress, suspended, tallow-faced, tame, tarnish, tasteless, taupe,
tedious, temper, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated,
thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickskulled, tiresome, tiring,
tolerable, tone down, toneless, torpid, treadmill, tune down, turn,
unadorned, unaffected, unaffectionate, unaroused, unbrace,
uncaring, uncolored, unconcerned, undermine, underplay,
undisturbable, unedged, unembellished, unemotional, uneventful,
unfanciful, unfeeling, unfelt, unflappable, unhardened, unideal,
unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpressionable,
uninspired, uninterested, uninteresting, uninventive, unirritable,
unlively, unloving, unman, unnerve, unnerved, unnervous,
unoriginal, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpoetic, unpoetical,
unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unromantic, unromanticized,
unsharp, unsharpened, unstrengthen, unstring, unstrung,
unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvarnished, unvarying,
vapid, vegetable, vegetative, wan, wash out, washed-out, waxen,
weak, weaken, weakly, weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced,
white, whiten, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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