Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dull-spirited.

Examples

  • I felt drugged when I woke up, heavy-hearted, dull-spirited, yet I got up to do what I always did, opening the iron stove door, shoving in more wood, putting on water to boil.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • I felt drugged when I woke up, heavy-hearted, dull-spirited, yet I got up to do what I always did, opening the iron stove door, shoving in more wood, putting on water to boil.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • I felt drugged when I woke up, heavy-hearted, dull-spirited, yet I got up to do what I always did, opening the iron stove door, shoving in more wood, putting on water to boil.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • I felt drugged when I woke up, heavy-hearted, dull-spirited, yet I got up to do what I always did, opening the iron stove door, shoving in more wood, putting on water to boil.

    Heaven V.C.Andrews 1985

  • To be equally sound, we must reckon among his educational facilities the abundant stories which came his way in a community which, however unlettered, was certainly not dull-spirited; the occasional newspaper; the rare lectures or political meetings; the much more frequent religious meetings, with preachers who taught a grim doctrine, but who preached with vigour and sometimes with the deepest sincerity; the hymns often of great emotional power over a simple congregation -- Cowper's "There is a fountain filled with blood," is one recorded favourite among them; the songs, far other than hymns, which

    Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.