What is another word for dull?
2726 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈʌl], [ dˈʌl], [ d_ˈʌ_l]
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Similar words for dull:
- absent-minded, unobservant (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- all the same, remaining the same (adjective)
- apathetic, stupid (adjective)
- arid (adjective)
- average (adjective)
- backward (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- behind, late (adjective)
- benumbed (adjective)
- bland (adjective)
- bland, uniform (adjective)
- blank (adjective)
- bleached; used (adjective)
- bleak, dreary, gloomy (adjective)
- blind (adjective)
- bloodless (adjective)
- blunt (adjective)
- blurry (adjective)
- bookish, precise (adjective)
- bored (adjective)
- boring (adjective)
- boring, uninteresting (adjective)
- brooding, upset (adjective)
- careless, indifferent (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- cloudy (adjective)
- colorless (adjective)
- corny (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dark-hued; murky (adjective)
- dark and cloudy (adjective)
- darkish (adjective)
- dead (adjective)
- dense (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- depressed, gloomy (adjective)
- depressed, unhappy (adjective)
- depressing, unhappy (adjective)
- diffuse (adjective)
- dim (adjective)
- dim-witted (adjective)
- dingy (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- dowdy (adjective)
- downcast (adjective)
- drab; quiet (adjective)
- dragging (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- dumb (adjective)
- dusky (adjective)
- earthy (adjective)
- easygoing, pleasant in personality (adjective)
- everyday (adjective)
- expressionless (adjective)
- faded (adjective)
- faint (adjective)
- fatuous (adjective)
- feeble-minded (adjective)
- feeble-minded; not intelligent (adjective)
- frumpish (adjective)
- frumpy (adjective)
- fusty (adjective)
- garden-variety (adjective)
- glassy (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- gray (adjective)
- gross (adjective)
- half-witted (adjective)
- having a blank look on face (adjective)
- hazy (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- heavy-hearted (adjective)
- hebetudinous (adjective)
- hollow (adjective)
- humdrum (adjective)
- idiotic (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- imbecile (adjective)
- immature (adjective)
- inactive (adjective)
- inactive, sluggish (adjective)
- inanimate (adjective)
- inapt (adjective)
- incompetent; not suitable (adjective)
- inert (adjective)
- inexpressive (adjective)
- infinite (adjective)
- inkhorn (adjective)
- insensitive (adjective)
- insentient (adjective)
- interminable (adjective)
- jejune (adjective)
- lackadaisical (adjective)
- lack of light (adjective)
- lazy (adjective)
- leaden (adjective)
- lethargic (adjective)
- limited (adjective)
- listless (adjective)
- matter-of-fact (adjective)
- mediocre (adjective)
- melancholic (adjective)
- menial (adjective)
- mild (adjective)
- monotonous (adjective)
- mousy (adjective)
- muddy (adjective)
- muffled (adjective)
- murky (adjective)
- musty (adjective)
- non-resonant (adjective)
- nondescript (adjective)
- not appealing (adjective)
- not pretty (adjective)
- not sharp (adjective)
- numb (adjective)
- obtuse (adjective)
- opaque (adjective)
- ordinary (adjective)
- overcast (adjective)
- overused (adjective)
- pale (adjective)
- pale, unhealthy (adjective)
- pasty (adjective)
- pedantic (adjective)
- phlegmatic (adjective)
- pokerfaced (adjective)
- ponderous (adjective)
- prolonged (adjective)
- prosaic (adjective)
- purblind (adjective)
- ready-made (adjective)
- reiterative (adjective)
- repetitious (adjective)
- repetitive (adjective)
- retarded (adjective)
- rustic (adjective)
- sallow (adjective)
- senseless (adjective)
- serious; gloomy (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- simple-minded (adjective)
- slack (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- slow-witted (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- soporific (adjective)
- spiritless (adjective)
- stale (adjective)
- stereotyped (adjective)
- stereotypical (adjective)
- stock (adjective)
- stolid (adjective)
- stuffy (adjective)
- stupid (adjective)
- stupid, foolish (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- tacky (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- tepid (adjective)
- thick (adjective)
- thick-witted (adjective)
- thoughtless (adjective)
- threadbare (adjective)
- trite (adjective)
- turbid (adjective)
- unappealing (adjective)
- unaware (adjective)
- uncomprehending (adjective)
- undistinguished (adjective)
- undistinguished, commonplace (adjective)
- uneventful (adjective)
- unexceptional (adjective)
- uninspired (adjective)
- unintelligent (adjective)
- uninterested (adjective)
- uninteresting (adjective)
- unmotivated (adjective)
- unperceptive (adjective)
- unprogressive (adjective)
- unsavory (adjective)
- unsightly (adjective)
- unsophisticated (adjective)
- vacuous (adjective)
- warmed-over (adjective)
- washed-out (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- weariful (adjective)
- with outdated ideas (adjective)
- wordy (adjective)
- arid (noun)
- benumb (noun)
- blunted (noun)
- bovine (noun)
- cloudy (noun)
- damp (noun)
- dead (noun)
- deadened (noun)
- deadening (noun)
- dense (noun)
- desiccate (noun)
- desiccated (noun)
- dull (noun)
- grayness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- somnifacient (noun)
- abate (verb)
- blear (verb)
- blunt (verb)
- bore (verb)
- boring (verb)
- dampen (verb)
- deaden (verb)
- depress (verb)
- dim (verb)
- disable (verb)
- extended (verb)
- fade (verb)
- harden (verb)
- mitigate (verb)
- muffle (verb)
- numb (verb)
- pale (verb)
- relieve (verb)
- silence (verb)
- stupefy (verb)
- tarnish (verb)
- turn (verb)
- whiten (verb)
- other synonyms
- Grey
- apathetic
- awkward
- bald
- barren
- blanched
- boorish
- brainless
- brownish
- commonplace
- conservative
- deathlike
- depress
- dim
- flavorless
- frumpy
- hackneyed
- harden
- harmless
- in low spirits
- insipid
- monotonous
- morose
- numb
- ordinary
- other relevant words
- pale
- prolix
- prompt
- quieten
- relieve
- retarded
- routine
- silence
- stale
- striking
- sulky
- tedious
- trite
- unlettered
- unthinking
- whiten
Synonyms for Dull:
adj.
• absent-minded, unobservant (adjective) • all (adjective)- dull.
- lifeless,
- more unanimated,
- most unanimated,
- drab,
- un animated,
- insipid,
- un-inspired,
- in-sipid,
- unanimated,
- in sipid,
- un inspired,
- un-animated.
- more behind,
- un-developed,
- subnormal,
- sub-normal,
- under-privileged,
- most subnormal,
- most behind,
- lagging,
- more subnormal,
- most checked,
- sub normal,
- under privileged,
- simple-minded,
- under-developed,
- more checked,
- under developed,
- un developed.
- more profitless,
- most uninspiring,
- un inspiring,
- un-productive,
- most unrewarding,
- unrewarding,
- more uninspiring,
- un rewarding,
- un-inspiring,
- most profitless,
- uninspiring,
- un-rewarding,
- un productive,
- more unrewarding,
- profitless.
- slow.
- most milk-and-water,
- nerdy,
- most milk and water,
- most nothing,
- wimpiest,
- un stimulating,
- wishy washy,
- more pabulum,
- most pabulum,
- unstimulating,
- more milk and water,
- more sapless,
- most unstimulating,
- wishywashy,
- most sapless,
- wimpier,
- ho hum,
- un exciting,
- most zero,
- more milk-and-water,
- un-exciting,
- nerdiest,
- milk-and-water,
- dull as dishwater,
- wimpy,
- un-stimulating,
- wishy-washy,
- nerdier,
- more unstimulating,
- more zero,
- more nothing,
- milk and water.
- unexpressive,
- in-scrutable,
- more unexpressive,
- meaningless,
- more masklike,
- un-communicative,
- un expressive,
- non committal,
- most poker faced,
- more poker-faced,
- un-expressive,
- empty,
- most unexpressive,
- inexpressive,
- in scrutable,
- masklike,
- more poker faced,
- most poker-faced,
- impassive,
- most masklike,
- non-committal,
- un communicative.
- more anesthetic,
- in-sensitive,
- in-sensible,
- in sensible,
- un-emotional,
- most anesthetic,
- un emotional,
- coldhearted,
- un-kind,
- indolent,
- un kind,
- un kindest,
- un-kindest,
- un-kinder,
- in sensitive,
- un kinder.
- dry,
- dragger,
- depressing,
- wearisome,
- well-worn,
- tiresome,
- prosaic,
- boring,
- mundane,
- tedious,
- uninteresting,
- nowhere,
- commonplace,
- unvaried,
- humdrum,
- dreary,
- characterless.
- hoary,
- soporific,
- big yawn,
- vapid,
- archaic,
- worn-out,
- usual thing,
- oft-repeated,
- common,
- out-of-date,
- prosy,
- tired,
- tame,
- abused,
- longwinded,
- Driveling,
- run-of-the-mill,
- trite,
- Familiar,
- hackneyed,
- prolix,
- repetitive,
- stock,
- plain.
- woebegone,
- de solate,
- in dumps,
- tenebrific,
- draggier,
- un comfortable,
- most drearisome,
- more drearisome,
- mopier,
- draggy,
- un-comfortable,
- funereal,
- more dejecting,
- sad,
- mopey,
- de-solate,
- draggiest,
- mopiest,
- jarring,
- in the dumps,
- Drearisome,
- most dejecting.
- nontransparent,
- mucky,
- more nubilous,
- mushy,
- in distinct,
- most emulsified,
- not clear,
- most nontransparent,
- more nontranslucent,
- more emulsified,
- nontranslucent,
- mis tier,
- non translucent,
- more nontransparent,
- mis-tier,
- non-transparent,
- non transparent,
- most nubilous,
- most nontranslucent,
- in-definite,
- most blurred,
- emulsified,
- Nubilous,
- non-translucent,
- more blurred,
- in definite,
- in-distinct,
- misty.
- neutral,
- lusterless,
- lackluster,
- colorless,
- unmemorable,
- pale,
- toneless,
- achromatic,
- doughier,
- bleached,
- white,
- uncolored,
- run of the mill,
- Unpassioned,
- hueless,
- doughy.
- sooty,
- cimmerian,
- unlighted,
- Atramentous,
- dusk,
- shady,
- unlit,
- obfuscous,
- stygian,
- shaded,
- lightless,
- ill-lighted,
- pitch black,
- pitch dark,
- crepuscular,
- aphotic,
- pitch-dark,
- rayless.
- dim.
- co pious,
- more waffling,
- diffusive,
- most circumlocutory,
- meandering,
- circumlocutory,
- more diffusive,
- more circumlocutory,
- dis cursive,
- more palaverous,
- dis-cursive,
- most palaverous,
- co-pious,
- most waffling,
- profuse,
- palaverous,
- pro-fuse,
- pro fuse,
- long winded,
- most diffusive.
- broken down,
- more bedimmed,
- more discolored,
- most discolored,
- more darkish,
- be-dimmed,
- brokendown,
- most bedimmed,
- most darkish,
- dis-colored,
- be dimmed,
- most smirched,
- more smirched,
- dis colored,
- darkish.
- in-auspicious,
- inauspicious,
- in pits,
- un happy,
- dis-heartening,
- more disheartening,
- un fortunate,
- most disheartening,
- in the pits,
- dis heartening,
- dis agreeable,
- un-happy,
- un happier,
- dis-agreeable,
- un-fortunate,
- un happiest,
- in auspicious,
- doleful,
- hopeless.
- be draggled,
- more unstylish,
- un seemliest,
- un tidier,
- out-dated,
- un tidiest,
- blowsier,
- by-gone,
- un-tidier,
- blowsiest,
- unstylish,
- frowzy,
- un-fashionable,
- most unstylish,
- un-tidy,
- un-stylish,
- vintage,
- be-draggled,
- un-kempt,
- un-seemlier,
- un stylish,
- un kemptest,
- by gone,
- un-seemly,
- more out of date,
- un seemlier,
- un seemly,
- un tidy,
- un-seemliest,
- most slatternly,
- slatternly,
- un-kemptest,
- un kempter,
- un-tidiest,
- out of date,
- blowsy,
- out dated,
- un fashionable,
- untidiest,
- un-kempter,
- more slatternly,
- frumpy,
- slovenly,
- un kempt.
- chapfallen,
- bummed out,
- down in dumps,
- heartsick,
- shot down,
- down-in-the-mouth,
- in pain,
- singing the blues,
- down in the dumps.
- besotted,
- drowsy,
- toilsome,
- comatose,
- apathetic,
- benumbed,
- thick-witted,
- cloddish,
- sluggish,
- backward,
- loutish,
- stupefied,
- boorish,
- stupid,
- lethargic,
- doltish,
- ponderous,
- sleepy.
- dark complexioned,
- swarter,
- most darkcomplexioned,
- darkcomplexioned,
- more dark complexioned,
- swartest,
- most adusk,
- more dark-complexioned,
- more twilit,
- most brunette,
- most dark-complexioned,
- most dark complexioned,
- more twilight,
- adusk,
- most twilit,
- most twilight,
- dark-complexioned,
- swart,
- more darkcomplexioned,
- more adusk,
- twilit.
- mild.
- in formal,
- more workaday,
- most workaday,
- un-remarkable,
- most whitebread,
- dime dozen,
- in-formal,
- un remarkable,
- un-imaginative,
- more whitebread,
- mainstream,
- whitebread,
- un imaginative,
- more frequent,
- habitual.
- more aside,
- most aside,
- more faltering,
- out earshot,
- in audible,
- most piano,
- most murmuring,
- more murmuring,
- more softened,
- re-mote,
- lowpitched,
- more muttering,
- more stifled,
- most bated,
- most muttering,
- far off,
- most faltering,
- low pitched,
- out of earshot,
- most stifled,
- in-audible,
- more piano,
- soothing,
- faroff,
- most softened,
- more bated,
- fainter.
- more boneheaded,
- most boneheaded,
- lamebrained,
- more lamebrained,
- most lamebrained,
- birdbrained,
- in-sensate,
- mindless,
- in sensate,
- witless,
- boneheaded.
- gloomy,
- most acherontic,
- most acheronian,
- more acherontic,
- over clouded,
- most overclouded,
- more overclouded,
- more saddening,
- over-clouded,
- acherontic,
- overclouded,
- acheronian,
- more acheronian,
- most saddening.
- more grim faced,
- most grim-faced,
- more grimfaced,
- strictly business,
- grim faced,
- most unsmiling,
- most long-faced,
- more long faced,
- more unsmiling,
- un smiling,
- longfaced,
- more long-faced,
- most grim faced,
- most grimfaced,
- most longfaced,
- grim-faced,
- most long faced,
- long faced,
- long-faced,
- nononsense,
- grimfaced,
- more longfaced,
- cold sober,
- un-smiling,
- no nonsense,
- more grim-faced,
- unsmiling.
- grizzled,
- lead-gray,
- dingy,
- battleship-gray,
- salt-and-pepper,
- somber,
- silvery,
- ashen,
- pearly,
- smoky,
- taupe,
- neutral-tint,
- dapple-gray,
- pearl-gray,
- iron-gray,
- mole-gray,
- gun metal.
- in-elegant,
- most swinish,
- loudmouthed,
- un cultured,
- more barnyard,
- in-decent,
- more undiscriminating,
- in decent,
- sexual,
- lowminded,
- un-cultured,
- un-couth,
- in gutter,
- un discriminating,
- more swinish,
- un couth,
- undiscriminating,
- un sophisticated,
- most barnyard,
- un-discriminating,
- swinish,
- most undiscriminating,
- in elegant,
- low minded,
- in the gutter.
- more dullwitted,
- most dull-witted,
- more dull-witted,
- most dull witted,
- most dullwitted,
- dull witted,
- more dull witted,
- half witted,
- dullwitted,
- halfwitted,
- Dull-witted.
- Fuliginous,
- more bleared,
- more obfuscated,
- rimier,
- more fuliginous,
- steaming,
- Fumy,
- most fuliginous,
- most obfuscated,
- fumiest,
- rimy,
- rimiest,
- most bleared,
- fumier,
- hazy.
- castdown,
- more cast-down,
- Fer,
- more castdown,
- Fest,
- fe,
- more bleeding,
- heavy hearted,
- de-stroyed,
- more cast down,
- down and out,
- most bleeding,
- de stroyed,
- most cast down,
- cast-down,
- most cast-down,
- more at,
- most castdown,
- down out,
- most at.
- most clangorous,
- reverberant,
- more toneless,
- most vibrating,
- more rumbling,
- most echoing,
- most rumbling,
- most reverberant,
- more vibrating,
- more echoing,
- more clangorous,
- re-sounding,
- most sounding,
- more reverberant,
- re sounding,
- most toneless,
- more sounding,
- clangorous,
- ghostly.
- prosiest,
- more white bread,
- most banausic,
- most white-bread,
- more white-bread,
- prosier,
- more banausic,
- most treadmill,
- most white bread,
- more treadmill,
- white-bread,
- white bread,
- most plodding,
- more plodding,
- banausic.
- most squirrelly,
- un intelligent,
- more squirrelly,
- squirrelly,
- un-intelligent,
- in sanest,
- in-saner,
- in sane,
- in-sane,
- in saner,
- idiotic.
- on hold,
- in holding pattern,
- mothballed,
- do nothing,
- low key,
- out of action,
- supine,
- jobless,
- out of service,
- somnolent,
- inanimate.
- lazy.
- ex animate,
- more nonanimal,
- nonanimal,
- most nonanimal,
- exanimate,
- most nonvegetable,
- nonvegetable,
- non-vegetable,
- insentient,
- ex-animate,
- more azoic,
- most exanimate,
- most azoic,
- azoic,
- non-animal,
- non animal,
- more mineral,
- most mineral,
- non vegetable,
- mineral,
- in-animate,
- more exanimate,
- more nonvegetable,
- in animate.
- in experienced,
- in-congruous,
- un handier,
- most ill-fitted,
- illadapted,
- in adept,
- unproficient,
- un-suited,
- more unfacile,
- in-aptest,
- un meetest,
- in-expert,
- more inadept,
- un ablest,
- most unfacile,
- most ill fitted,
- in-apter,
- ill fitted,
- un-suitable,
- un-skilled,
- more ill fitted,
- un-timelier,
- unmeetest,
- illfitted,
- in apter,
- un skilled,
- in aptest,
- more illadapted,
- in-adept,
- unhandiest,
- more unproficient,
- un meeter,
- un-proficient,
- more ill adapted,
- un-timeliest,
- un-ablest,
- most illadapted,
- un timely,
- un proficient,
- un handy,
- un-handy,
- un timeliest,
- more inapposite,
- un-facile,
- un-handier,
- Unmeet,
- un dexterous,
- unhandier,
- most undexterous,
- inapposite,
- un-handiest,
- in expert,
- ill-fitted,
- unfacile,
- un-meeter,
- illsuited,
- most ill adapted,
- more ill-fitted,
- un handiest,
- more illfitted,
- inadept,
- un timelier,
- in appropriate,
- ill suited,
- Unhandy,
- un-meet,
- un suited,
- most illfitted,
- in-felicitous,
- in-apposite,
- more undexterous,
- ill-adapted,
- ill adapted,
- undexterous,
- most ill-adapted,
- more ill-adapted,
- un-fit,
- un-dexterous,
- in congruous,
- un-abler,
- in-appropriate,
- in felicitous,
- un-timely,
- un abler,
- most inadept,
- most inapposite,
- in apposite,
- un meet,
- unmeeter,
- un facile,
- most unproficient,
- un-meetest,
- in-experienced,
- un suitable.
- insensible,
- lumpy,
- routine,
- indifferent,
- placid,
- usual,
- unsympathetic,
- unexciting,
- stagnant,
- regular,
- Impassible,
- accustomed,
- torpid,
- even,
- listless,
- passionless,
- quiet,
- still,
- callous,
- slack,
- languid,
- unresponsive.
- spun out,
- more unbound,
- inter-minable,
- un-ceasing,
- most interminate,
- un-bound,
- un bound,
- Interminate,
- on treadmill,
- more day and night,
- in-terminable,
- un ceasing,
- long drawn out,
- day and night,
- most day and night,
- in terminate,
- in-terminate,
- more interminate,
- un interrupted,
- no end of,
- in terminable,
- more day-and-night,
- un-limited,
- never ending,
- unbound,
- most unbound,
- strung out,
- most day-and-night,
- on a treadmill,
- no end to,
- inter minable,
- neverending,
- day-and-night.
- dis-interested,
- more energyless,
- dis interested,
- laidback,
- un-concerned,
- in-attentive,
- in attentive,
- Half-hearted,
- half hearted,
- in curious,
- in-curious,
- most energyless,
- spring fever,
- un concerned,
- energyless,
- most daydreaming,
- more daydreaming.
- dark.
- asleep on job,
- asleep the job,
- snoozy,
- most dallying,
- un-ready,
- out it,
- slothful,
- asleep on the job,
- slow-moving,
- neglectful,
- more slowmoving,
- most slowmoving,
- more unenergetic,
- unpersevering,
- un industrious,
- unenergetic,
- most unpersevering,
- most slow moving,
- snooziest,
- most slow-moving,
- slowmoving,
- slow moving,
- unready,
- more unpersevering,
- most procrastinating,
- un ready,
- more slow-moving,
- un-energetic,
- laggard,
- unindustrious,
- most unenergetic,
- more unready,
- most laggard,
- out of it,
- asleep job,
- more laggard,
- more dallying,
- un-persevering,
- more unindustrious,
- most unready,
- un-industrious,
- most unindustrious,
- snoozier,
- more slow moving,
- un persevering,
- more procrastinating,
- un energetic.
- more blue gray,
- most blue-gray,
- most bluegray,
- more pewter,
- most pewter,
- more blue-gray,
- most blue gray,
- blue-gray,
- more bluegray,
- bluegray,
- pewter.
- hebetudinous,
- stretchy,
- leisurely,
- phlegmatic,
- drooping,
- lumpish,
- lymphatic,
- unhurried,
- having spring fever,
- sleepyhead,
- drugged,
- languorous,
- dopey.
- coldblooded,
- un sentimental,
- unsentimental,
- un affected,
- un-varnished,
- most unimpassioned,
- more unimpassioned,
- stoic,
- cold blooded,
- more unsentimental,
- most unsentimental,
- un-impassioned,
- unimpassioned,
- un-sentimental,
- matter-of-fact,
- un varnished,
- un impassioned.
- sycophantic,
- de-grading,
- more demeaning,
- most grovelling,
- de-meaning,
- menial,
- Obeisant,
- more sycophantic,
- most demeaning,
- de meaning,
- grovelling,
- most sycophantic,
- more grovelling,
- de grading,
- fawning.
- more hohum,
- most reiterated,
- uninflected,
- re-current,
- singsong,
- un-inflected,
- most sing song,
- uni form,
- un changing,
- most droning,
- samely,
- re current,
- more droning,
- most ho hum,
- more samely,
- un changed,
- re iterated,
- un-relieved,
- most hohum,
- hohum,
- most ho-hum,
- flat as pancake,
- un relieved,
- un varying,
- more ho hum,
- re-iterated,
- more sing song,
- un inflected,
- un-changed,
- more sing-song,
- un-changing,
- more ho-hum,
- sing song,
- most singsong,
- puts one to sleep,
- puts one sleep,
- more reiterated,
- most uninflected,
- most samely,
- more singsong,
- uni-form,
- most sing-song,
- sing-song,
- more uninflected,
- un-varying.
- self effacing,
- un assertive,
- most unassertive,
- selfeffacing,
- un-assertive,
- in effectual,
- more unassertive,
- unassertive,
- in-effectual,
- in determinate,
- timorous.
- boggiest,
- gunkiest,
- be mired,
- un-cleanest,
- un cleanest,
- more bemired,
- GUNKY,
- boggier,
- un clean,
- be-spattered,
- be-mired,
- most bespattered,
- soiled,
- more caked,
- Caked,
- more bespattered,
- more subfuse,
- sub fuse,
- bespattered,
- subfuse,
- un cleaner,
- most bemired,
- be spattered,
- gunkier,
- boggy,
- sub-fuse,
- most subfuse,
- un-cleaner,
- most caked.
- more unnoteworthy,
- un-pretentious,
- garden-variety,
- un-noteworthy,
- most unnoteworthy,
- un noteworthy,
- unnoteworthy.
- in substantial,
- in effective,
- in adequate,
- whitish,
- most waxlike,
- in-adequate,
- in-effective,
- pallid,
- most whitish,
- waxlike,
- in-substantial,
- more whitish,
- un-substantial,
- un substantial,
- Waterish,
- more waxlike.
- Pedantical,
- more donnish,
- more schoolish,
- Inkhorn,
- more nit picking,
- over nice,
- nit picking,
- most overnice,
- most hairsplitting,
- more overnice,
- schoolish,
- doctrinaire,
- most nit-picking,
- overnice,
- nit-picking,
- more hairsplitting,
- more nit-picking,
- most nit picking,
- donnish,
- most donnish,
- over-nice,
- most schoolish.
- un demonstrative,
- along for the ride,
- most unexcitable,
- un-involved,
- dis-passionate,
- un excitable,
- un-compassionate,
- un involved,
- un compassionate,
- de-sensitized,
- de sensitized,
- most desensitized,
- un-demonstrative,
- dis passionate,
- more desensitized,
- un-excitable,
- more unexcitable,
- unexcitable,
- along for ride.
- un aware,
- most unperceiving,
- more unperceiving,
- in discriminate,
- un-conscious,
- un conscious,
- un observant,
- nearsighted,
- un-observant,
- unperceiving,
- un perceiving,
- un-aware,
- un-seeing,
- un-perceiving,
- in-discriminate,
- un seeing.
- mentally defective,
- most dumbo,
- more dumdum,
- most gorked,
- most numbskull,
- gorked,
- more yo yo,
- most pinhead,
- more yo-yo,
- most yo yo,
- most yo-yo,
- more gorked,
- most retardo,
- more underachieving,
- re-tardo,
- more pinhead,
- most dumbbell,
- more yoyo,
- dumdum,
- most underachieving,
- yo-yo,
- most yoyo,
- retardo,
- more numbskull,
- re tardo,
- under achieving,
- YOYO,
- more dumbo,
- more dumbbell,
- more retardo,
- underachieving,
- yo yo,
- most dumdum,
- numbskull,
- under-achieving.
- most clownish,
- most clodhopping,
- more clownish,
- Clodhopping,
- un polished,
- un educated,
- un gainlier,
- clownish,
- un-educated,
- uneducated,
- un gainliest,
- un mannerly,
- un-mannerly,
- un-gainly,
- more clodhopping,
- un gainly.
- greenish-yellow,
- more greenish-yellow,
- more greenishyellow,
- bilious,
- most bilious,
- greenish yellow,
- most greenishyellow,
- more greenish yellow,
- greenishyellow,
- more bilious,
- most greenish yellow,
- most greenish-yellow.
- senseless,
- unfeeling,
- faint,
- trance-like,
- blacked out,
- unconscious,
- oblivious,
- swooning,
- narcotic,
- aloof.
- impeded,
- unpunctual,
- long-delayed,
- time-consuming,
- slow on the uptake,
- gradual,
- long delayed,
- slowest.
- more numbing,
- more mesmerizing,
- more deadening,
- dozier,
- most numbing,
- more opiate,
- more quietening,
- dozy,
- most opiate,
- nodding,
- more tranquilizing,
- most mesmerizing,
- most tranquilizing,
- most quietening,
- doziest,
- most deadening.
- unenthusiastic,
- down in mouth,
- down mouth,
- flat tire,
- un-enthusiastic,
- un enthusiastic,
- MOPY,
- un-moved,
- down the mouth.
- more cliche,
- most zestless,
- yesterday's,
- yester day,
- more zestless,
- like dinosaur,
- most cliche ridden,
- zestless,
- wornout,
- more cliche-ridden,
- yester-day's,
- yester-day,
- cliche-ridden,
- yester day's,
- most cliche,
- un-original,
- yesterday,
- yester days,
- most cliche-ridden,
- yester-days,
- cliched,
- un original,
- cliche ridden,
- more cliche ridden,
- like a dinosaur.
- more thick headed,
- thick,
- in-discreet,
- thick headed,
- illadvised,
- more thick-headed,
- most thick headed,
- most loser,
- more loser,
- dummier,
- Thick-headed,
- un-thinking,
- most thick-headed,
- dummiest,
- un thinking,
- out lunch,
- in discreet,
- dim-witted,
- fatuous.
- used-up,
- familiar tune,
- more mildewed,
- most cornball,
- platitudinal,
- most used up,
- most mildewed,
- usedup,
- stereotypic,
- warmed-over,
- cornball,
- more used-up,
- more used up,
- bromidic,
- used up,
- most used-up,
- chainest,
- more usedup,
- most usedup,
- stereotypical,
- overused,
- chainer,
- more cornball,
- Mildewed.
- most unbeauteous,
- most subfuscous,
- more unbeauteous,
- dis-gusting,
- un-appealing,
- sub fuscous,
- sub-fuscous,
- Subfuscous,
- un-beauteous,
- dis gusting,
- un appealing,
- un inviting,
- unbeauteous,
- un-inviting,
- more subfuscous,
- un beauteous.
- nothing to write home about,
- nothing write home about,
- nothing special,
- un-distinguished,
- un distinguished.
- imbecilic,
- Daffy,
- brainless,
- not bright,
- unintellectual,
- scatterbrained,
- half-baked,
- moronic,
- daft,
- addled.
- more unenjoyable,
- un enjoyable,
- un entertaining,
- unentertaining,
- un interesting,
- unenjoyable,
- un-interesting,
- most unentertaining,
- more unentertaining,
- most unenjoyable,
- un-enjoyable,
- un-entertaining.
- most unambitious,
- un-motivated,
- unambitious,
- un motivated,
- un ambitious,
- un-ambitious,
- more unambitious.
- more unprepossessing,
- un sightlier,
- unshapelier,
- un-shapelier,
- unshapely,
- un-shapeliest,
- unshapeliest,
- un-sightly,
- de formed,
- most unprepossessing,
- un shapelier,
- un-attractive,
- un sightly,
- unprepossessing,
- un-sightliest,
- un-shapely,
- un shapely,
- un-prepossessing,
- un-sightlier,
- de-formed,
- un prepossessing,
- un shapeliest,
- un sightliest,
- un attractive.
n.
-
•
- billow,
- cirrostratus,
- cirrus,
- bank,
- cumulus,
- cumulonimbus,
- cirrocumulus,
- low,
- column.
-
•
- uneconomical,
- loss-making,
- nonprofit,
- underfunded,
- not-for-profit,
- untapped,
- uneconomic,
- unprofitable,
- stuporous,
- awareness.
-
•
- quieten,
- see,
- block out,
- cut out,
- uncomprehending.
-
•
- attitude,
- bloodless,
- anesthetic,
- weak,
- feelings.
-
•
- colors.
- arid.
- damp.
- dead.
- leaden,
- muted,
- mat,
- unreverberant,
- ho-hum,
- thudding,
- soft,
- matt,
- muffled,
- unsaturated,
- lacklustre,
- matte,
- mute,
- nonresonant,
- softened,
- gray,
- pall,
- insensitive,
- dumb,
- tone down,
- inactive,
- matted,
- dulled,
- Irksome,
- thumping,
- lustreless,
- flat.
v.
• abate (verb)- go with flow,
- takes easy,
- let hang out,
- cools it,
- de crease,
- letted go,
- re-ceding,
- re-ceded,
- sub-side,
- hangs loose,
- went with flow,
- lays back,
- de creased,
- going with flow,
- re duces,
- de-creasing,
- de cline,
- hung easy,
- went with the flow,
- un lax,
- hanging easy,
- hung loose,
- take easy,
- took it easy,
- de-clines,
- mellows out,
- lets hang out,
- letting all hang out,
- letting hang out,
- letted all hang out,
- sub sides,
- sub sided,
- unlaxes,
- de clines,
- sub-sided,
- sub-siding,
- let it hang out,
- re duce,
- letted it hang out,
- letted hang out,
- de-cline,
- letting it hang out,
- re ceded,
- re cedes,
- mellowing out,
- letting it all hang out,
- re-duce,
- re ceding,
- hanged loose,
- lets all hang out,
- sub side,
- de-creases,
- sub due,
- cooled it,
- sub dues,
- lets it hang out,
- letted it all hang out,
- sub-dues,
- goes with flow,
- let all hang out,
- sub siding,
- unlaxed,
- un-lax,
- mellowed out,
- hanged easy,
- goes with the flow,
- re-cedes,
- re-cede,
- sub-sides,
- de creases,
- re cede,
- lets it all hang out,
- sub-due,
- de-creased,
- unlaxing,
- laying back,
- cooling it,
- de-crease,
- hangs easy,
- de creasing,
- taking easy,
- took easy,
- re-duces.
- dis maying,
- dis-may,
- re strains,
- re-strained,
- dis courage,
- dis may,
- re-strain,
- dis-courage,
- re straining,
- dis courages,
- dis-mays,
- re-straining,
- dis mays,
- re-strains,
- dis-maying,
- dis-courages,
- re strain,
- re strained.
- de adens,
- be numbs,
- de-stroying,
- un nerve,
- de-adens,
- de-sensitizing,
- puts sleep,
- re-presses,
- de-vitalizes,
- de-sensitizes,
- de sensitizes,
- be-numb,
- de vitalizing,
- re press,
- re pressed,
- be numb,
- in capacitating,
- de stroy,
- Etherized,
- ko'd,
- de-stroy,
- KOD,
- de vitalizes,
- in capacitate,
- in capacitated,
- putting out of order,
- in-capacitate,
- ko'ing,
- puts out of order,
- un nerves,
- de vitalize,
- Etherizing,
- putting sleep,
- un-nerves,
- lays out,
- in-capacitating,
- put sleep,
- in capacitates,
- de-sensitize,
- de sensitizing,
- de stroying,
- un nerved,
- de-vitalize,
- be-numbing,
- re-pressing,
- de-aden,
- in-capacitates,
- putting out order,
- de stroys,
- etherizes,
- re presses,
- de-stroys,
- de sensitize,
- un-nerve,
- de-vitalized,
- puts out order,
- be numbing,
- koing,
- de aden,
- re pressing,
- put out order,
- un-nerving,
- be-numbs,
- un nerving,
- de vitalized,
- de-vitalizing,
- in-capacitated.
- de basing,
- beating down,
- de solated,
- co-wing,
- co wed,
- casts down,
- de press,
- co-wed,
- de-basing,
- de-based,
- de-solated,
- reduced tears,
- dis-tress,
- dis heartens,
- de-pressing,
- de solates,
- reduces tears,
- co wing,
- dis-heartens,
- dis tresses,
- de grade,
- de-base,
- bums out,
- turned one off,
- de-pressed,
- keeping under,
- de-solating,
- throwing cold water on,
- throws cold water on,
- reducing tears,
- turns one off,
- de-press,
- up-sets,
- de pressed,
- dis tress,
- dis-tresses,
- de base,
- de graded,
- de-presses,
- de-solates,
- turning one off,
- de based,
- reduced to tears,
- de-grade,
- reduces to tears,
- de presses,
- beats down,
- up-set,
- up-setting,
- threw cold water on,
- bumming out,
- de-grades,
- dis hearten,
- de pressing,
- reducing to tears,
- de-graded,
- de grades,
- up setting,
- de solating,
- up sets,
- dis-hearten,
- reduce tears.
- be dimming,
- be-dimming,
- be clouds,
- be-clouding,
- be-fogs,
- be-cloud,
- be fogging,
- be clouded,
- be fogged,
- be fogs,
- be-clouded,
- be-fogged,
- be clouding,
- be-fogging,
- be fog,
- be-fog,
- be-clouds.
- hamstring,
- neutralize,
- hinder,
- undermine,
- disable,
- screw up,
- sap,
- hobble,
- invalidate,
- vitiate,
- hamper,
- impair,
- lame,
- paralyze,
- scotch,
- cripple,
- prostrate,
- enfeeble,
- botch,
- tamper,
- disarm,
- incapacitate,
- abrogate,
- weaken,
- stun,
- handicap,
- cramp.
- de-colorize,
- dis appears,
- de-colorizes,
- de colorize,
- de colorized,
- lost brightness,
- grew dim,
- dis-color,
- dis appear,
- de colorizing,
- became colorless,
- de-colorizing,
- dis-coloring,
- losing brightness,
- dis-appear,
- dis-solving,
- disco-loring,
- de-colorized,
- becomes colorless,
- dis solved,
- dis-appeared,
- dis appeared,
- dis coloring,
- de colorizes,
- dis solving,
- growing dim,
- dis-appears,
- loses brightness,
- achromatizes,
- dis colors,
- Achromatized,
- disco loring,
- dis-solves,
- lost luster,
- evanished,
- becoming colorless,
- evanishes,
- decolorizes,
- dis-colors,
- losing luster,
- dis color,
- dis-appearing,
- dis solve,
- dis appearing,
- evanishing,
- dis-solved,
- loses luster,
- dis solves,
- dis-solve.
- case hardened,
- makes callous,
- case harden,
- co-arsen,
- renders insensitive,
- climatizes,
- case-hardens,
- Climatizing,
- case hardens,
- casehardens,
- co arsen,
- rendered insensitive,
- callusses,
- rendering insensitive,
- case hardening,
- making callous,
- made callous.
- take edge off,
- takes the edge off,
- taking edge off,
- came together,
- took the edge off,
- took edge off,
- takes edge off,
- met halfway,
- taking the edge off.
- putting lid on,
- sate down on,
- softpedal,
- sits down on,
- putting the lid on,
- puts the lid on,
- sitting down on,
- sat down on.
- desensitize,
- daze,
- narcotize,
- drug.
- going white,
- growing dull,
- grows dull,
- goes white,
- lost color,
- losing color,
- grew dull,
- went white,
- loses color.
- take load one chest,
- taking load off one's chest,
- takes load one chest,
- take load ones mind,
- take load one mind,
- took load one chest,
- taking load off one chest,
- takes load off ones chest,
- taking load off mind,
- take load one's mind,
- taking load off ones chest,
- take load off ones chest,
- took load off chest,
- takes load off chest,
- taking load ones chest,
- takes load one's mind,
- take load mind,
- took load off ones mind,
- takes load off one's chest,
- take load chest,
- took load off one mind,
- takes load off one's mind,
- taking load one chest,
- taking load one's mind,
- took load off one's mind,
- taking load one mind,
- took load ones chest,
- taking load mind,
- took load one mind,
- takes load ones chest,
- take load off mind,
- takes load chest,
- taking load off one's mind,
- took load off one chest,
- take load off one mind,
- taking load off ones mind,
- took load one's chest,
- takes load off one mind,
- takes load mind,
- re lieve,
- take load one's chest,
- taking load off chest,
- took load chest,
- taking load ones mind,
- took load off one's chest,
- took load one's mind,
- takes load off one chest,
- took load mind,
- took load off ones chest,
- re-lieve,
- takes load off ones mind,
- take load off ones mind,
- taking load one's chest,
- takes load ones mind,
- take load off one chest,
- takes load one's chest,
- taking load off one mind,
- taking load chest,
- take load ones chest,
- take load off chest,
- re lax,
- took load off mind,
- takes load off mind,
- re-lax,
- took load ones mind,
- takes load one mind.
- hushed mouth,
- keeps it down,
- clams up,
- holds one tongue,
- holding one's tongue,
- holds one's tongue,
- dummies up,
- said nothing,
- decreased volume,
- keeping down,
- hush ones mouth,
- hush mouth,
- hushed ones mouth,
- strikes dumb,
- says nothing,
- hush-hushing,
- hushhush,
- held ones tongue,
- strook dumb,
- held one tongue,
- holds ones tongue,
- hushhushed,
- hushes one mouth,
- dummying up,
- hushed one's mouth,
- tongue tied,
- hushes one's mouth,
- quiets down,
- hush-hushes,
- keeps down,
- holding ones tongue,
- chokes off,
- over awes,
- hushing one's mouth,
- hold one tongue,
- hush hushes,
- tongue tying,
- over awe,
- piping down,
- tonguetying,
- decreased the volume,
- hushing ones mouth,
- holding one tongue,
- decreases volume,
- dries up,
- over awing,
- holding tongue,
- held tongue,
- quieting down,
- sate on,
- hush one mouth,
- over-awes,
- holds tongue,
- over-awed,
- tonguetie,
- over awed,
- hush hushed,
- hushed one mouth,
- sits on,
- hushes ones mouth,
- tongue-ties,
- decreasing volume,
- piped down,
- hush hushing,
- tongue ties,
- hushes mouth,
- tongueties,
- hushing one mouth,
- hushing mouth,
- pipes down,
- kept it down,
- over-awe,
- hush hush,
- striking dumb,
- tongue-tying,
- tonguetied,
- hush-hushed,
- hushhushing,
- held one's tongue,
- decreasing the volume,
- hold ones tongue,
- decreases the volume,
- keeping it down,
- over-awing,
- hushhushes.
- be wildered,
- over whelming,
- be-mused,
- be-musing,
- over whelmed,
- sur prises,
- sur-prises,
- be-wilders,
- sur prise,
- be-wilder,
- over-whelmed,
- over-whelming,
- be-wildered,
- be-wildering,
- be mused,
- be wildering,
- be musing,
- sur-prising,
- sur-prise,
- sur prising,
- over-whelms,
- over whelm,
- over whelms,
- be-muse,
- be wilders,
- be-sotted,
- be muse,
- sur-prised,
- be sotted,
- be wilder,
- over-whelm.
- be-foul,
- dis gracing,
- losing shine,
- de filed,
- be fouled,
- de files,
- be foul,
- dis graced,
- be grime,
- be-grimed,
- de-fame,
- de-famed,
- de-faming,
- be-griming,
- be fouling,
- be-fouled,
- dis-gracing,
- dis-grace,
- be-grimes,
- be-fouling,
- lost shine,
- de-files,
- be-fouls,
- be-grime,
- de-filed,
- de file,
- de-fames,
- be griming,
- dis-graced,
- dis graces,
- dis grace,
- de famed,
- de-filing,
- de fame,
- be fouls,
- de-file,
- de faming,
- de fames,
- be grimed,
- loses shine,
- dis-graces,
- de filing,
- be grimes.
- broke down,
- becoming rancid,
- de-composing,
- brake down,
- de compose,
- dis integrated,
- de cay,
- dis integrating,
- de-composed,
- de-compose,
- went bad,
- de composing,
- dis-integrated,
- de-composes,
- de-cay,
- going bad,
- dis-integrates,
- dis-integrate,
- dis integrates,
- de composed,
- dis integrate,
- became rancid,
- breaks down,
- dis-integrating,
- de-cays,
- de cays,
- de composes,
- becomes rancid.
Other synonyms:
• Grey- grey.
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•
- clinical,
- left-handed,
- dimly,
- Two-edged,
- wanly,
- middle-aged,
- blank,
- deadly,
- unreadable,
- half-witted,
- eclipse,
- overshadow,
- befog,
- oily,
- blah,
- obfuscate,
- ordinary,
- shallow,
- barbed,
- stale,
- vegetable,
- overcast,
- double-edged,
- hollow,
- becloud,
- slavish,
- readable,
- worthy,
- pedestrian.
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•
- derivative,
- insensate,
- razor-sharp,
- barren,
- unhealthy,
- blur,
- Weak-minded,
- harden,
- elegant,
- enthusiastic,
- wan,
- Unapt.
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•
- fog.
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•
- bass.
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•
- blind.
- dun.
- perturb,
- casting down,
- keeps under,
- beat down,
- kept under,
- cast down,
- up set,
- bum out,
- throw cold water on,
- keep under,
- reduce to tears,
- turn one off.
- disciplined,
- case-hardened,
- coarsening,
- coarsen,
- roughened,
- callousing,
- embitter,
- callusing,
- Roughening,
- Disciplining,
- render insensitive,
- Casehardening,
- case-harden,
- roughens,
- Climatized,
- make callous,
- case-hardening,
- callused,
- calluses,
- Caseharden,
- coarsens,
- calloused,
- coarsened,
- callouses,
- Climatize,
- roughen,
- Casehardened,
- callus.
- muffle,
- tarnish,
- Tarred,
- deaden,
- slackening,
- wash out,
- begrimed,
- mellow out,
- turn,
- break down,
- Gassed,
- Chloroforming,
- depress,
- etherize,
- relieve,
- recede,
- washing out,
- decolorize,
- Besotting,
- tire,
- dampen,
- tarnishes,
- begrime,
- begrimes,
- whiten,
- come together,
- cool it,
- let it all hang out,
- Slackened,
- anesthetizing,
- curdled,
- waning,
- Chloroformed,
- besots,
- reducing,
- achromatize,
- breaking down,
- unlax,
- grimed,
- Damped,
- let go,
- decolorized,
- go with the flow,
- fade,
- put the lid on,
- lets go,
- putting to sleep,
- DAMPS,
- letting go,
- laid back,
- Dulling,
- tar,
- washes out,
- comes together,
- taking it easy,
- take it easy,
- go bad,
- tapers,
- become colorless,
- decolorizing,
- Evanish,
- kos,
- hang easy,
- slackens,
- grow dim,
- Damping,
- lay back,
- grow dull,
- lose shine,
- grows dim,
- dulls,
- mitigate,
- lose luster,
- placate,
- stupefy,
- hanging loose,
- silence,
- lose brightness,
- tapers off,
- Tarring,
- put out of order,
- besot,
- anesthetizes,
- abate,
- exhaust,
- take the edge off,
- go white,
- lose color,
- coming together,
- blear,
- griming,
- Begriming,
- Waned,
- goes bad,
- become rancid,
- put to sleep,
- going with the flow,
- takes it easy,
- puts to sleep,
- gassing,
- Tars,
- put lid on,
- sit down on,
- curdling,
- taper off,
- anesthetize,
- quell,
- numb,
- mitigated,
- hang loose.
- overawed,
- Overawing,
- clamming up,
- closing up,
- sit on,
- decrease the volume,
- quiet down,
- overawe,
- quieted down,
- shush,
- dummy up,
- clam up,
- dried up,
- overawes,
- saying nothing,
- kept down,
- keep down,
- pipe down,
- dumbed,
- hold tongue,
- closes up,
- choking off,
- strike dumb,
- keep it down,
- Clammed,
- clammed up,
- closed up,
- decrease volume,
- hush one's mouth,
- tongue tie,
- dry up,
- hold one's tongue,
- choked off,
- say nothing,
- dumbing,
- choke off,
- dumbs,
- struck dumb,
- tongue-tie,
- dummied up,
- Clamming,
- close up,
- drying up,
- sitting on.
- long.
How to use "Dull" in context?
Dullness is often perceived as a negative trait, but there are ways to make it work for you. Dullness doesn't have to be a negative thing - it can be a source of creative inspiration. Here are seven ways to make dullness work for you:
1. Don't let dullness stop you from trying new things. Too often, we get stuck in our comfort zones, but that's ok - there's nothing wrong with experimenting. Take the plunge and explore new ideas and experiences.
2. Be prepared to step outside of your comfort zone.
Paraphrases for Dull:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
dreary.
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Other Related
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Adjective
annoying, bored, boring, cumbersome, dark, dismal, drab, lacklustre, monotonic, monotonous, sad, tedious, tiresome, uninspiring.
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Adjective
Homophones for Dull:
- deathly, dole, deli, dial, dahlia, delilah, dottily, doily, dawdle, daylily, doyly, delhi, do well, delay, daily, dhal, dill, deal, dle, diddle, dol, dl, diol, Daedal, dalo, dali, dal, dell, dowdily, duly, dail, dahl, dally, doll, dale, dowel, doodle, dottle, deadly, death toll, dhole, dual, duel, dwell, dulle, dolly, doyley, doddle, day lily, dalea, douala, detail.
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SCRIPS
- Synonyms:
- Securities, scrapes, haversacks, knapsacks, scabbards, pokes, banknotes.
