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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. With little or no emotion or expression: dry, impassive, unemotional. See ATTITUDE, EXCITE. 2. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise: arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, sterile, stodgy, unimaginative, uninspired. See EXCITE. 3. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, objective, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, tough-minded, unromantic. See EXCITE, REAL.
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