Adjective
1. dull
2. bovine, drab, dreary, heavy, leaden, humdrum, monotonous, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, arid, desiccate, desiccated, colorless, colourless, spiritless, unanimated, dull
3. flat, mat, matt, matte, matted, lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless, unpolished, muffled
4. muted, softened, soft, boring
5. deadening, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, uninteresting, unsaturated
6. dull
7. deadened, dense
8. dim, dumb, obtuse, slow, stupid, slow
9. sluggish, inactive, dull
10. blunt, blunted, dulled, edgeless, unsharpened, insensitive
11. thudding
12. unreverberant, nonresonant, gray
Verb
1. grey, leaden, cloudy, change
2. alter, modify, change
3. muffle
4. mute, damp, dampen, tone down, soften, numb
5. benumb, blunt, desensitize, desensitise, blunt
6. change, alter, modify, pall
7. change, weaken
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