Dulled Synonyms and Antonyms

To make or become less keen or responsive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stupefied
  2. dimmed
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. obscured
  2. dimmed
  3. dampened
  4. shadowed
  5. vegetated
  6. tarnished
  7. overshadowed
  8. sullied
  9. stupefied
  10. obfuscated
  11. stagnated
  12. saddened
  13. misted
  14. rebated
  15. gloomed
  16. fogged
  17. moderated
  18. bedimmed
  19. eclipsed
  20. disheartened
  21. muted
  22. depressed
  23. clouded
  24. deadened
  25. blurred
  26. blunted
  27. benumbed
  28. bleared
  29. befogged
  30. assuaged
  31. alleviated
  32. muffled
  33. beclouded
  34. allayed
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To make or become less sharp-edged
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turned
  2. blunted
Make numb or insensitive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. numbed
  2. blunted
  3. desensitized
  4. deadened
  5. benumbed
Antonyms:
  1. sharpened
Having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. benumbed
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Made dull or blunt
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. blunted
Deprived of color
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. greyed

Dulled Sentence Examples

  • But his old magic was dulled by the unanswered questions left over from Clapham Common.

  • When the cutter has dulled, it is best to replace the shaving head.

  • She twisted to see the Grey God, whose ashen face and dulled eyes were trained on the still body beside her.

  • The effect he had on human women was dulled on female Guardians, but she sensed his strange draw nonetheless and stared at him.

  • Hence, suppose genuine prayer to have come into being, it is exceedingly apt to degenerate into a mere piece of formalism; and yet, whereas its intrinsic meaning is dulled by repetition according to a well-known pyschological law, its virtue is thereby hardly lessened for the undeveloped religious consciousness, which holds the saving grace to lie mainly in the repetition itself.

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