dully

1. 1.

   without liveliness

   “she nodded her head dully”
2. 2.

   without luster or shine

   “the light shone dully through the haze”

   “unpolished buttons glinted dully”

Questions about dully

What does dully mean?

dully means "without liveliness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dully?

dully has 2 syllables and divides as dul-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dully a common word?

dully is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.