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dull
- adjective
- (person, book) ennuyeux/-euse;
(life, journey) monotone;
(appearance) triste;
(weather) maussade;
- (eye, colour, complexion) terne.
- (person, book) ennuyeux/-euse;
- transitive verb ternir (shine);
émousser (blade, pain).
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| Principal Translations/Principales traductions | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (not acute or intense) douleur, son : peu intense | sourd adj | ||||||
| She felt a constant dull pain in her back. | |||||||||
| Elle souffrait sans arrêt d'une douleur sourde dans le dos. | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (boring) manquant d'intérêt | ennuyeux, assommant adj | ||||||
| sans intérêt adj inv | |||||||||
| insipide adj | |||||||||
| The thesis was so dull that I fell asleep reading it. | |||||||||
| Cette thèse est si ennuyeuse (or: assommante) que je me suis endormi en la lisant. | |||||||||
| Cette thèse est tellement sans intérêt que je me suis endormi en la lisant. | |||||||||
| * Son film est si insipide qu'il a peu de succès. | |||||||||
| Additional Translations/Traductions supplémentaires | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (uninterested) sans relief | plat, détaché adj | ||||||
| ton | morne adj | ||||||||
| Melina's dull responses led Marius to believe she did not care. | |||||||||
| Les réponses plates (or: détachées) de Mélina montraient à Marius qu'elle s'en fichait. | |||||||||
| Le ton morne de Mélina montrait à Marius son peu d'intérêt. | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (dispirited, listless) sans ardeur | maussade, renfermé adj | ||||||
| With nothing to do, he grew dull and began to mope about. | |||||||||
| À force de ne rien faire, il devint maussade (or: renfermé) et se mit à broyer du noir. | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (boring: person) personne sans intérêt | creux, insignifiant adj | ||||||
| ennuyeux, inintéressant adj | |||||||||
| After an hour of uninteresting conversation, Melanie decided Tony was dull. | |||||||||
| Après une heure de conversation sans intérêt, Mélanie en déduisit que Tony était creux (or: insignifiant). | |||||||||
| Après une heure de conversation sans intérêt, Mélanie en déduisit que Tony était ennuyeux (or: inintéressant). | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (colour or light: not bright) couleur, lumière | terne adj | ||||||
| The dull brown suit made her look older than her real age. | |||||||||
| Dans son tailleur marron terne, elle faisait plus que son âge. | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (gloomy, sunless, cloudy) ciel | maussade, gris adj | ||||||
| The sky is dull today, with not much sunlight. | |||||||||
| Le ciel est maussade (or: gris) aujourd’hui, le soleil se fait rare. | |||||||||
| dull | adj | (sound: muffled) son | sourd, étouffé adj | ||||||
| We heard the dull sound of drums from the neighbour's house. | |||||||||
| De la maison voisine nous parvenait le battement sourd (or: étouffé) de la batterie. | |||||||||
| dull | vi | (become dull) devenir moins aigu | s'atténuer, se calmer vpr ⇒ ⇒ | ||||||
| The loud noise in the common room dulled. | |||||||||
| Le vacarme provenant de la salle commune s'est atténué (or: s'est calmé). | |||||||||
| dull | vtr | (make less sharp) sens | émousser vtr ⇒ | ||||||
| Seeing so many sad films had dulled his senses, and he no longer cried. | |||||||||
| Voir tant de films tristes avait émoussé ses sens et il ne pleurait plus. | |||||||||
| dull | vtr | (make less distinct) rendre moins visible | estomper vtr ⇒ | ||||||
| The painter dulled the lines by blending them. | |||||||||
| Le peintre a estompé les contours en diluant les couleurs. | |||||||||
| Améliorer les traductions "{0}" ci-dessus. | |||||||||
| Compound Forms/Formes composées | |||||||||
| deadly dull | adj | suant (ennuyeux) | |||||||
| dull-witted | adj | lent d'esprit | |||||||
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EN: dull / duller / more dull - grammaire
givré vs. dépoli - frosted vs. dull?
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It was a limpid black night, hung in a basket from a single dull star.
Never a dull moment
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The dull flame of desire
the dull lighting of the hotel room cast a glow
The dull thud of loneliness
The world was quite a dull place to be
as dull as dishwater
Bring a ray of light into everyone's dull day of school
dead skin / dull skin
dull ache
dull and exasperating...
dull shine
EN: dull / duller / more dull - grammaire
givré vs. dépoli - frosted vs. dull?
how dull
It was a limpid black night, hung in a basket from a single dull star.
Never a dull moment
sharp/dull pencil
the dull down was beginning to show grey
The dull flame of desire
the dull lighting of the hotel room cast a glow
The dull thud of loneliness
The world was quite a dull place to be
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