{
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": "d\u0259l",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/dull.mp3",
    "transkor": "\ub530\ubd84\ud55c"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Adjective",
      "etymologies": "Old English dol \u2018stupid\u2019, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dol \u2018crazy\u2019 and German toll \u2018mad, fantastic, wonderful\u2019",
      "definitions": "lacking interest or excitement",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "uninteresting"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "boring"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tedious"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tiresome"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wearisome"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dry"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dry as dust"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "flat"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "bland"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "characterless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "featureless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "colourless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "monotonous"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unexciting"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "uninspiring"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unstimulating"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking variety"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking variation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking excitement"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking interest"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unimaginative"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "uneventful"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lifeless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "soulless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "insipid"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Verb",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "make or become dull or less intense",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dampen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "depress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "take the edge off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blunt"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deaden"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "mute"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "soften"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tone down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "allay"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "ease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "soothe"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "assuage"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "alleviate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "palliate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "moderate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "mitigate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "numb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "benumb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deaden"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "desensitize"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "render insensitive"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "stupefy"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "daze"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "stun"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fade"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pale"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "bleach"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wash out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decolorize"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decolour"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dim"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "etiolate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "darken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blacken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dim"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blur"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "veil"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "obscure"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shadow"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fog"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dampen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "put a damper on"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cast a pall over"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cast down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lower"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "depress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "crush"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shake"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "sap"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "suppress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "extinguish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "smother"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "stifle"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "time dulls the memory",
        "Albert's eyes dulled a little"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meanskor": [
    {
      "type": "\ud615\uc6a9\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "\uac8c\ub974\ub9cc\uc5b4\uc5d0\uc11c \uc720\ub798\ud55c \uc624\ub798\ub41c \uc601\uc5b4 \ub3cc '\uba4d\uccad\ud55c'; \ub124\ub35c\ub780\ub4dc \ub3cc '\ubbf8\uce5c'\uacfc \ub3c5\uc77c\uc778 \ud1b5\ud589\ub8cc '\ubbf8\uce5c, \ud658\uc0c1\uc801, \uacbd\uc774\ub85c\uc6b4'\uacfc \uad00\ub828\uc774 \uc788\ub2e4.",
      "definitions": "\ud765\ubbf8 \ub610\ub294 \ud765\ubd84\uc774 \ubd80\uc871\ud55c",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "uninteresting"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "boring"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tedious"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tiresome"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wearisome"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dry"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dry as dust"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "flat"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "bland"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "characterless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "featureless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "colourless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "monotonous"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unexciting"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "uninspiring"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unstimulating"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking variety"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking variation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking excitement"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lacking interest"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unimaginative"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "uneventful"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lifeless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "soulless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "insipid"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\ub2f9\uc2e0\uc758 \uc2dd\ub2e8\uc740 \uc9c0\ub8e8\ud558\uace0 \uc9c0\ub8e8\ud560 \ud544\uc694\uac00 \uc5c6\ub2e4."
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "\ub3d9\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "\uc9c0\ub8e8\ud558\uac70\ub098 \ub35c \uac15\ub82c\ud558\uac8c \ud558\ub2e4.",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "diminish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dampen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "depress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "take the edge off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blunt"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deaden"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "mute"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "soften"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tone down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "allay"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "ease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "soothe"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "assuage"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "alleviate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "palliate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "moderate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "mitigate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "numb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "benumb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "deaden"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "desensitize"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "render insensitive"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "stupefy"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "daze"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "stun"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fade"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pale"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "bleach"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wash out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decolorize"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decolour"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dim"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "etiolate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "darken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blacken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dim"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blur"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "veil"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "obscure"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shadow"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fog"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dampen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "put a damper on"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cast a pall over"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cast down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lower"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "depress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "crush"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shake"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "sap"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "suppress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "extinguish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "smother"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "stifle"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\uc2dc\uac04\uc774 \uc9c0\ub098\uba74 \uae30\uc5b5\uc774 \ub454\ud574\uc9c4\ub2e4.",
        "\uc54c\ubc84\ud2b8\uc758 \ub208\uc774 \uc57d\uac04 \ub454\ud574\uc84c\ub2e4."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "allphrases": [
    "as dull as dishwater",
    "dull the edge of"
  ],
  "arrphraseskor": [
    "\ubab9\uc2dc \ubb34\ubbf8\uac74\uc870\ud55c",
    "\uc758 \uac00\uc7a5\uc790\ub9ac\ub97c \ubb34\ub514\uac8c \ud558\ub2e4"
  ]
}