Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Dullness

Nouns
  • dullness, heaviness, flatness
  • infestivity etc. Dejection, stupidity etc. Imbecility. Folly
  • want of originality
  • dearth of ideas. prose, matter of fact
  • heavy book
  • platitude.
Verbs
  • be dull etc. adj.
  • prose, be caught napping. render dull etc. adj.
  • damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on
  • fall flat upon the ear. no joke, serious matter (importance) Importance.
Adjectives
  • dull, dull as ditch water
  • unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust
  • unfunny, unlively, logy [U.S.]
  • unimaginative
  • insulse
  • dry as dust
  • prosy, prosing, prosaic
  • matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless
  • weary stale flat and unprofitable" [Hamlet]. stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous
  • melancholic etc. Dejection
  • stolid etc. Imbecility. Folly
  • plodding. boring, tiresome, tedious etc. Weariness.
Phrases
  • davus sum non Aedipus
  • deadly dull and boring, DDB.