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dullsome

adj

Etymology

From dull + -some.

  1. inherited from *dʰwel-✻
  2. inherited from *dulaz✻
  3. inherited from *dol✻
  4. inherited from dol — “dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”
  5. inherited from dull
  6. suffixed as dullsome — “dull + some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by dullness.

    • Then suddenly a breath of air, Unheralded, from who knows where, Brings to my sense an odor faint, Unrecognized yet eloquent, And whiff! the dullsome street is gone — […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA