stupidity &c 499; want of originality; dearth of ideas.
prose, matter of fact; heavy book, conte a dormir debout [Fr.];
platitude.
V. be dull &c adj.; prose, take au serieux [Fr.], be caught napping.
render dull &c adj.; damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet
blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.
no joke, serious matter (importance) 642.
Adj. dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat,
dry as dust; unfunny, unlively†, logy [U.S.]; unimaginative; insulse†;
dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace,
pedestrian, pointless; weary stale flat and unprofitable [Hamlet].
stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous;
melancholic &c 837; stolid &c 499; plodding.
boring, tiresome, tedious &c 841.
Phr. davus sum non Aedipus†; deadly dull and boring, DDB.