Beautiful vs. Dull — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Beautiful and Dull
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Beautiful
Having qualities that delight or appeal to the senses and often the mind.
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Dull
Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring
A dull movie.
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Beautiful
Excellent; wonderful
Hit a beautiful shot from the tee.
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Dull
Not brisk or rapid; sluggish
Business has been dull.
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Beautiful
Used to express approval or delight.
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Dull
Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt
A dull knife.
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Beautiful
Attractive and possessing beauty.
Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.
There's a beautiful lake by the town.
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Dull
Not intensely or keenly felt
A dull ache.
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Beautiful
Good, admirable.
He was a beautiful person; he would drop everything to help you.
You've done a beautiful thing today.
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Dull
Not bright, vivid, or shiny
A dull brown.
A glaze with a dull finish.
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Beautiful
(of the weather) Pleasant; clear.
It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.
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Dull
Cloudy or overcast
A dull sky.
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Beautiful
Well executed.
The skater performed a beautiful axel.
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Dull
Not clear or resonant
A dull thud.
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Beautiful
Someone who is beautiful. Can be used as a term of address.
The man was faithful to his wife, ignoring the many blonde beautifuls who surrounded him wherever he went.
Hey, beautiful!
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Dull
Intellectually weak or obtuse; stupid.
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Beautiful
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.
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Dull
Lacking responsiveness or alertness; insensitive
Half-asleep and dull to the noises in the next room.
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Beautiful
Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration;
A beautiful child
Beautiful country
A beautiful painting
A beautiful theory
A beautiful party
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Dull
Dispirited; depressed
A dull mood.
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Beautiful
Aesthetically pleasing
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Dull
To make or become dull.
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Beautiful
(of weather) highly enjoyable;
What a beautiful day
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Dull
Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
All these knives are dull.
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Dull
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.
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Dull
Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.
A dull fire or lamp;
A dull red or yellow;
A dull mirror
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Dull
Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
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Dull
Sluggish, listless.
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Dull
Cloudy, overcast.
It's a dull day.
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Dull
Insensible; unfeeling.
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Dull
Heavy; lifeless; inert.
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Dull
(of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
Pressing on the bruise produces a dull' pain.
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Dull
Not clear, muffled.
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Dull
(transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
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Dull
(transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
He drinks to dull the pain.
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Dull
(intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
A razor will dull with use.
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Dull
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
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Dull
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
She is not bred so dull but she can learn.
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Dull
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
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Dull
Insensible; unfeeling.
Think me notSo dull a devil to forget the lossOf such a matchless wife.
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Dull
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
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Dull
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
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Dull
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
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Dull
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
Along life's dullest, dreariest walk.
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Dull
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Dull
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Those [drugs] she hasWill stupefy and dull the sense a while.
Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
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Dull
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
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Dull
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance.
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Dull
To become dull or stupid.
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Dull
Make dull in appearance;
Age had dulled the surface
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Dull
Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness;
The varnished table top dulled with time
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Dull
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
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Dull
Make numb or insensitive;
The shock numbed her senses
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Dull
Make dull or blunt;
Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
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Dull
Become less interesting or attractive
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Dull
Make less lively or vigorous;
Middle age dulled her appetite for travel
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Dull
Lacking in liveliness or animation;
He was so dull at parties
A dull political campaign
A large dull impassive man
Dull days with nothing to do
How dull and dreary the world is
Fell back into one of her dull moods
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Dull
Emitting or reflecting very little light;
A dull glow
Dull silver badly in need of a polish
A dull sky
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Dull
Being or made softer or less loud or clear;
The dull boom of distant breaking waves
Muffled drums
The muffled noises of the street
Muted trumpets
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Dull
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
A boring evening with uninteresting people
The deadening effect of some routine tasks
A dull play
His competent but dull performance
A ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
What an irksome task the writing of long letters is
Tedious days on the train
The tiresome chirping of a cricket
Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
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Dull
(of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted;
Dull greens and blues
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Dull
Not keenly felt;
A dull throbbing
Dull pain
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Dull
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
So dense he never understands anything I say to him
Never met anyone quite so dim
Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
Worked with the slow students
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Dull
(of business) not active or brisk;
Business is dull (or slow)
A sluggish market
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Dull
Not having a sharp edge or point;
The knife was too dull to be of any use
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Dull
Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility;
A dull gaze
So exhausted she was dull to what went on about her
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Dull
Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft;
The dull thud
Thudding bullets
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Dull
Darkened with overcast;
A dark day
A dull sky
A gray rainy afternoon
Gray clouds
The sky was leaden and thick
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