Get to know Dullness better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like sharpness or form.
Dullness in a sentence
Dullness meaning
- The quality of being slow of understanding things.
- The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
- Lack of interest or excitement.
Synonyms of Dullness
Using Dullness
- The main meaning on this page is: The quality of being slow of understanding things. | The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome. | Lack of interest or excitement.
- Useful related words include: sharpness, form, shape, bluntness.
- In the example corpus, dullness often appears in combinations such as: the dullness, dullness of, of dullness.
Context around Dullness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 16.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dullness
- In this selection, "dullness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 16.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, overall, dawn, skin, drink, sagging and following stand out and add context to how "dullness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a palpable dullness following the and but the dullness is its. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dullness" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dullness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The dullness is a cover. (5 words)
This is entering dullness territory. (5 words)
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. (8 words)
When she takes the stand in court, she taunts the judge and barristers as if she were playing Liza Doolittle in a community-theater production of her earthiness achieves the same level of dullness as Edith’s prissy sanctimony. (39 words)
Android 11 on the Pixel 5 (and the Pixel 4, Pixel 4a, and Pixel 4a 5G) could be labeled boring, just like the design, but the dullness is its strength. (30 words)
He had been either invisible or deliberately sober to the point of dullness, when his usual primary draw to Tory members is a self-created sense of optimism and fun. (30 words)
The extent of your extreme dullness is wanting? (8 words)
Even if you change your name your dullness still shows you up! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
This lackluster progress I think further adds to the dullness of investing in MBI right now.
Whether you're dealing with dark spots and hyperpigmentation or overall dullness, this gentle formula is perfect for those with sensitive skin.
In the pre-dawn dullness of my tiny hotel room, I to run on the front page.
When people fret about looking old, they focus on a few obvious areas: wrinkles, damage and dullness, sagging and slump.
When she takes the stand in court, she taunts the judge and barristers as if she were playing Liza Doolittle in a community-theater production of her earthiness achieves the same level of dullness as Edith’s prissy sanctimony.
Acne breakouts are common, as is skin dullness.
Android 11 on the Pixel 5 (and the Pixel 4, Pixel 4a, and Pixel 4a 5G) could be labeled boring, just like the design, but the dullness is its strength.
Dullness has no cure but try to pretend please.
The American scenes are stricken with a palpable dullness following the emotional reunion, highlighting how out of place, and listless Yasmeen feels in this new life.
The more he belches sulphuric nonsense, the more his dullness becomes more obvious.
All right, we are done with the dullness side of it.
He had been either invisible or deliberately sober to the point of dullness, when his usual primary draw to Tory members is a self-created sense of optimism and fun.
The dullness is a cover.
The extent of your extreme dullness is wanting?
This is entering dullness territory.
Even if you change your name your dullness still shows you up!
If Sison will be chosen through his dullness, no problem.
Joyous, no, to see United imploding, the manager blaming the players for his side’s dullness and inability to win every match.
Ultimately, the dullness that so much of this exhibits for those who don’t worship at the alter of the original prevents me from recommending it.
Common combinations with dullness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the dullness 6×
- dullness of 4×
- of dullness 3×
- dullness is 3×
- and dullness 2×
- his dullness 2×
- extreme dullness 2×