dulled has definitions from the field of color
1
[ adjective ] having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure

Synonyms

benumbed

Examples

"the mind of the audience is becoming dulled" "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"

Used in print

(Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)

Public_relations strategists everywhere , watching the reaction of the German press , the liberal press , the lunatic fringe press , listening to their neighbors , studying interviews with men and women on the street , cried_out : Too_much , too_much - the mind of the audience is becoming dulled , the horrors are losing their effect .

(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)

But he was more_than half drunk , and his faculties were dulled .

Related terms

uninterested

2
[ adjective ] made dull or blunt

Synonyms

blunted

Related terms

dull

3
[ adjective ] (color) deprived of color

Synonyms

grayed

Examples

"colors dulled by too much sun" "grayed with the dust of the road"

Related terms

colorless

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