Word Meanings - DULLNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DULLNESS)

• Gloom
• Gloaming
• twilight
• obscurity
• shadow
• obscuration
• dullness
• cloudiness
• cloud
• dejection
• sadness

Related words: (words related to DULLNESS)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DULLNESS
  The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• CLOUDINESS
  The state of being cloudy.
• CLOUDLAND
  Dreamland.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• CLOUDBERRY
  A species of raspberry growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• GLOOMILY
  In a gloomy manner.
• CLOUD-COMPELLER
  Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. Pope.
• GLOOM
  1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect
• GLOAM
  The twilight; gloaming. Keats.
• CLOUDING
  1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing. 2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.
• CLOUDLESS
  Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. -- Cloud"less*ly, adv. -- Cloud"less*ness, n.
• CLOUD
  arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
• CLOUDILY
  In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.
• SADNESS
  1. Heaviness; firmness. 2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer. 3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Syn.
• TWILIGHT
  1. Seen or done by twilight. Milton. 2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. Pope.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.
• UNCLOUD
  To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl.
• DISCLOUD
  To clear from clouds. Fuller.
• INTERCLOUD
  To cloud. Daniel.
• UNSADNESS
  Infirmity; weakness. Wyclif.