"duller" meaning in English

See duller in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: dull (adjective) + -er Etymology templates: {{suf|en|dull|er|id2=comparative|pos1=adjective}} dull (adjective) + -er Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adjective}} duller
  1. comparative form of dull: more dull Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: dull (extra: more dull)
    Sense id: en-duller-en-adj-~bZyEJDy Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 63 37
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: dullers [plural]
Etymology: dull (verb) + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dull|er|id2=agent noun|pos1=verb}} dull (verb) + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} duller (plural dullers)
  1. One who, or that which, dulls. Derived forms: tooth duller
    Sense id: en-duller-en-noun-9bb-5aDd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for duller meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dull",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun",
        "pos1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "dull (verb) + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dull (verb) + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dullers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "duller (plural dullers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "tooth duller"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who, or that which, dulls."
      ],
      "id": "en-duller-en-noun-9bb-5aDd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "duller"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dull",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "comparative",
        "pos1": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "dull (adjective) + -er",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dull (adjective) + -er",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "comparative adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "duller",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (comparative)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more dull",
          "word": "dull"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of dull: more dull"
      ],
      "id": "en-duller-en-adj-~bZyEJDy",
      "links": [
        [
          "dull",
          "dull#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duller"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English comparative adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (comparative)"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "tooth duller"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dull",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun",
        "pos1": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "dull (verb) + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dull (verb) + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dullers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "duller (plural dullers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who, or that which, dulls."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duller"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English comparative adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (comparative)"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dull",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "comparative",
        "pos1": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "dull (adjective) + -er",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dull (adjective) + -er",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "comparative adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "duller",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English comparative adjectives"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more dull",
          "word": "dull"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of dull: more dull"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dull",
          "dull#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "duller"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.