Cold
Cold adjective - Causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer.
Usage example: the couple practiced a cold civility with each other, but they hadn't had a heart-to-heart talk in years
Dull is a synonym for cold in character trait topic. In some cases you can use "Dull" instead an adjective "Cold".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- They can continue to discriminate, for example, hot and cold or sharp and dull, but they cannot tell when that sharp is cutting them or that cold is freezing their tissues.
Source: Immunity Disability -
The narrative goes on about the way "everything is cold, dull, and distant, and blast it, my hands stopped working and I can't work this handle, let's try the elbows..."
Source: Heroic R.R.O.D. - In Changeling: The Dreaming from the Old World of Darkness, growing up means losing touch with one's faerie side, and inevitably succumbing to the cold, cruel, dull grip of Banality.
Source: Growing Up Sucks
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