dull

/d?l/

意味: 退屈な、鈍くする

例文: Momo found algebra incredibly dull.
　　  モモが代数を信じられないほど退屈と感じる。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: dull knife(鈍いナイフ), dull color(くすんだ色), dull pain(鈍い痛み)

定義: 鈍い、面白くない、活気がない、色や音がはっきりしない、刺激が少ないことを表します。

dullは約100,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: make dull in appearance
Verb: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
Verb: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Verb: make numb or insensitive
Verb: make dull or blunt
Verb: become less interesting or attractive
Verb: make less lively or vigorous
Adjective: lacking in liveliness or animation
Adjective: emitting or reflecting very little light
Adjective: being or made softer or less loud or clear
Adjective: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; – Edmund Burke; ; – Mark Twain
Adjective: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
Adjective: not keenly felt
Adjective: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; – Thackeray
Adjective: (of business) not active or brisk
Adjective: not having a sharp edge or point
Adjective: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; ; – Willa Cather
Adjective: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
Adjective: darkened with overcast

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The meeting was dull, lacking any engaging discussion or ideas.(会議は退屈で、魅力的な議論やアイデアが欠けていました。)
I found the movie really dull; I almost fell asleep!(その映画は本当に退屈で、ほとんど寝てしまいそうでした！)
Her dull expression betrayed her disappointment in the unexpected news.(彼女の退屈な表情は、予想外のニュースに対する失望を物語っていました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: Age had dulled the surface
Verb: the varnished table top dulled with time
Verb: The shock numbed her senses
Verb: Too much cutting dulls the knife’s edge
Verb: Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
Adjective: he was so dull at parties
Adjective: a dull political campaign
Adjective: a large dull impassive man
Adjective: dull days with nothing to do
Adjective: how dull and dreary the world is
Adjective: fell back into one of her dull moods
Adjective: a dull glow
Adjective: dull silver badly in need of a polish
Adjective: a dull sky
Adjective: the dull boom of distant breaking waves
Adjective: muffled drums
Adjective: the muffled noises of the street
Adjective: muted trumpets
Adjective: a boring evening with uninteresting people
Adjective: the deadening effect of some routine tasks
Adjective: a dull play
Adjective: his competent but dull performance
Adjective: a ho-hum speaker who couldn’t capture their attention
Adjective: what an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Adjective: tedious days on the train
Adjective: the tiresome chirping of a cricket
Adjective: other people’s dreams are dreadfully wearisome
Adjective: dull greens and blues
Adjective: a dull throbbing
Adjective: dull pain
Adjective: so dense he never understands anything I say to him
Adjective: never met anyone quite so dim
Adjective: although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
Adjective: dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
Adjective: he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
Adjective: worked with the slow students
Adjective: business is dull (or slow)
Adjective: a sluggish market
Adjective: the knife was too dull to be of any use
Adjective: a dull gaze
Adjective: so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her
Adjective: the dull thud
Adjective: thudding bullets
Adjective: a dark day
Adjective: the sky was leaden and thick

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): benumb, blunt, boring, damp, dampen, deadening, dense, dim, dull, dumb, ho-hum, irksome, leaden, muffle, muffled, mute, muted, numb, obtuse, pall, slow, sluggish, softened, tedious, thudding, tiresome, tone down, wearisome

Antonyms(反意語): bright, lively, sharp, sharpen

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, desensitize, soften, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ascend, ash, assibilate, assimilate, assume, attenuate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, besot, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, break into, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capacitate, capture, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, cause to sleep, centralize, change by reversal, change integrity, change intensity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clinker, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, collapse, color, come, come in, come round, commercialize, communize, commute, complexify, complicate, concretize, condense, confuse, conjugate, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, crash, creolize, cry, cure, customize, damage, darken, dawn, de-emphasize, deaden, deafen, deaminate, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, deoxidize, depersonalize, depolarize, desalinate, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, die, die down, digest, digitize, dim, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distill, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fade, fail, fall, fall for, fatten, felt, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freeze, frenchify, freshen, full, gel, gelatinize, give way, glamorize, glaze, glorify, go out, gradate, grow, gum, habituate, harden, harmonize, harshen, have, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hush, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydrolyze, ice up, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, indurate, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introject, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, ionize, islamize, isomerize, keratinize, laicize, leave, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, lighten, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mature, mechanize, mellow, melt, militarize, mince, mix, modernize, modify, mold, morph, move, muddy, muffle, mutate, mythologize, narrow, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, numb, obfuscate, obscure, obsolesce, occidentalize, occult, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidise, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, pass, patent, personalize, piggyback, pine away, plasticize, play out, poison, polarize, politicize, port, prim, professionalize, promote, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, rarefy, rationalize, recede, receive, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, remodel, reorient, repress, restore, resume, reticulate, revolutionize, right, ripen, rise, roll, romanticize, round off, rusticate, salinate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, separate, sequester, set, settle, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shear, shift, shorten, simplify, slacken, slenderize, slow, smoothen, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solarize, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, spot, sputter, stabilize, stagnate, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, stratify, strengthen, string, stun, sublime, subside, substitute, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, synthesize, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpire, transpose, turn, turn back, turn on, uglify, ulcerate, unclutter, undergo, undulate, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulcanize, vulgarise, warm, warm up, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wilt, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): cloud

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: boringness, damper, denseness, dullard, dullness, dumbness, muffler, mute, obtuseness, slowness, sluggishness, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law, psychology

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, education

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

TOEIC500

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative, sadness