(superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
(superl.) Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
(superl.) Insensible; unfeeling.
(superl.) Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
(v. t.) To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
(v. t.) To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
(v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
(v. i.) To become dull or stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(2) Similar systems were put in place at Dulles outside Washington DC, Newark and Chicago airports on Thursday.
(3) The soft, dull, malacic appearance of the center results from lack of a true surface layer of tangential collagen fibers.
(4) Here I am in Los Angeles being paid $30,000 to do next to nothing and still I'm finding life rather dull.
(5) A significant proportion of splenic B cells reacted with these mAb, although lower number (one-log less) than peritoneal B cells and a small proportion of H7dull+ splenic B cells seems to be Ly-1(CD5)dull+, 1 of 200 splenic B cells responded to IL-5 for IgM production.
(6) A 58-year-old man complained of dull left lower quadrant pain and constipation.
(7) They will begin next week at Liberty airport in Newark, New Jersey; Dulles, outside Washington DC; Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
(8) At both observations, crowns were rated on 5-point Likert scales for outline form, porosity, smoothness, reflectance, texture, dullness, defects, and general esthetic appearances.
(9) On the other hand AMH2 showed the dull-positive reaction with some monocytes and pleural exudate cells among above-mentioned cells.
(10) Britain’s Got Talent review – Simon Cowell is looking like Caligula after a dull day at the Coliseum Read more The show, won last year by boy band Collabro, began eight years ago with 4.9 million viewers, rising to 8.8 million for its second series launch before hitting the 10 million mark for the first time in 2009 with 10.3 million.
(11) Disseminated annular psoriasiform lesions developed over a period of 2 months in a 48-year-old man with no preceding psoriatic history of drug intake, being accompanied by general dullness and arthralgia.
(12) 3) At the severe stage, pain and dullness at the back, numbness at arms and hands, hand coldness, sleep disturbance etc.
(13) One month after surgery, she complained of swelling and a dull pain in the right leg without cardiorespiratory symptoms.
(14) Black-hair follicular dysplasia in dogs of mixed breeding was delineated by hypotrichosis and dullness of most black regions of the coat.
(15) Endoscopic examination disclosed an almost roundish, smooth-surfaced, flat and dull red area corresponding to IIc (slightly depressed type).
(16) Their surface phenotype was Thy-1+(dull), Ly-1.2+(dull), Lyt-2-, L3T4-, 9F3+, and 3A1+, which is consistent with that found in intact lpr mice.
(17) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
(18) Flow cytometry showed three types of trophozoite staining by mAb: (i) bright staining of greater than 90% of trophozoites, with aggregation of the organisms; (ii) bright staining of approximately 90% of trophozoites, with little or no aggregation; (iii) dull staining of approximately 20% of trophozoites, without aggregation.
(19) The percentage of dull CD8+CD11b+ cells (natural killer cells) among TG-2 cells was lower than that in peripheral blood, but there was no significant difference in bright CD8+CD11b+ cells (suppressor-effector T cells) between thyroid glands and peripheral blood.
(20) It was filed in my mind as a pretty but dull destination, full of pensioners on package deals and cruises.
Pedestrian
Definition:
(a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
(n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(2) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
(3) Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups.
(4) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
(5) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(6) Sporadic and pedestrian studies cannot explain why a necessary and sufficient relationship should exist between the presence of a cleft and the dependent measures used.
(7) We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period.
(8) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
(9) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
(10) There has also been an emphasis since 2008 for elevated pedestrian walkways, or “skywalks”.
(11) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(12) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
(13) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(14) "After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him," a male colleague of the officer wrote.
(15) We conclude that pedestrian victims are commonly intoxicated and that chest and spine injuries are more common in this population.
(16) Of these, 213 were Hartford residents resulting in an annual age-specific pedestrian collision rate of 22.8 per 10,000 persons.
(17) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
(18) Good design improves the behaviour of cyclists If you want to see improved behaviour among cyclists, just build best-practice infrastructure for them – separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give them their own space in the urban landscape.
(19) The mayor championed some of his early successes, including the implementation of the Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan – although there have been questions after jaywalkers were targeted last month – and reminding the audience that his administration had recently settled in the Floyd v City of New York case, allowing major reforms to the controversial policy to move forward.
(20) Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city.