dun

1. 1.

   horse of a dull brownish grey color

   Broadersaddle horse
2. 2.

   a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

   “she wore dun”

   Synonymsgreyish browngrayish brownfawn

   Broaderlight brown

1. 1.

   of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

   “the dun and dreary prairie”

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of dun

plural

duns·

past tense or participle

dunned

present participle

dunning

comparative or superlative

dunner

comparative or superlative

dunnest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dun

What does dun mean?

dun means "treat cruelly". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dun?

dun has 1 syllable: dun. In IPA it is /ˈdʌn/.

What is another word for dun?

Close synonyms include torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, frustrate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dun a common word?

dun is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dun?

4 words rhyme with dun. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.