Dun
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dun
adj 1: of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun
and dreary prairie"
n 1: horse of a dull brownish grey color
2: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
"she wore dun" [syn: {dun}, {greyish brown}, {grayish brown},
{fawn}]
v 1: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering
teacher" [syn: {torment}, {rag}, {bedevil}, {crucify},
{dun}, {frustrate}]
2: persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his
customers every day by telephone"
3: cure by salting; "dun codfish"
4: make a dun color
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\ (d[u^]n), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Dunned} (d[u^]nd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Dunning} (d[u^]n"n[i^]ng).] [AS. dyne noise,
dynian to make a noise, or fr. Icel. dynr, duna, noise,
thunder, duna to thunder; the same word as E. din. [root]74.
See {Din}.]
To ask or beset (e.g., a debtor), for payment; to urge
importunately.
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Hath she sent so soon to dun? --Swift.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dun \Dun\, a. [AS. dunn, of Celtic origin; cf. W. dwn, Ir. &
Gael. donn.]
Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black;
of a dull brown color; swarthy.
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Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. -- Pierpont.
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Chill and dun
Falls on the moor the brief November day. --Keble.
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{Dun crow} (Zool.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its
color; -- also called {hoody}, and {hoddy}.
{Dun diver} (Zool.), the goosander or merganser.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dune \Dune\ (d[=u]n), n. [The same word as down: cf. D. duin.
See {Down} a bank of sand.]
A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but
often carried far inland by the prevailing winds. [Written
also {dun}.]
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Three great rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse, and the
Scheldt, had deposited their slime for ages among the
dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their
mouths. --Motley.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot}; {deep, rich}; {flaming}; {fluorescent, glowing};
{prismatic}; {psychedelic}; {red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled}]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of {colorless}
or {dull}. [Narrower terms: {brave, fine, gay, glorious};
{flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained}; {flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; {picturesque}]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of {colorless} and
{monochrome}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {tinted}; {touched, tinged}; {amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; {amethyst}; {auburn,
reddish-brown}; {aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden};
{azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue}; {bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful,
blush-colored, rosy}; {bottle-green}; {bronze, bronzy};
{brown, brownish, dark-brown}; {buff}; {canary,
canary-yellow}; {caramel, caramel brown}; {carnation};
{chartreuse}; {chestnut}; {dun}; {earth-colored,
earthlike}; {fuscous}; {green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green}; {jade, jade-green}; {khaki}; {lavender,
lilac}; {mauve}; {moss green, mosstone}; {motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured}; {mousy, mouse-colored};
{ocher, ochre}; {olive-brown}; {olive-drab}; {olive};
{orange, orangish}; {peacock-blue}; {pink, pinkish};
{purple, violet, purplish}; {red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet}; {red, reddish}; {rose, roseate}; {rose-red};
{rust, rusty, rust-colored}; {snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel,
brownish-orange}; {stone, stone-gray}; {straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured}; {tan}; {tangerine};
{tawny}; {ultramarine}; {umber}; {vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; {yellow, yellowish};
{yellow-green}; {avocado}; {bay}; {beige}; {blae
bluish-black or gray-blue)}; {coral}; {creamy}; {cress
green, cresson, watercress}; {hazel}; {honey,
honey-colored}; {hued(postnominal)}; {magenta};
{maroon}; {pea-green}; {russet}; {sage, sage-green};
{sea-green}] [Also See: {chromatic}, {colored}, {dark},
{light}.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "dun":
account, annoy, apply pressure, bay, bayard, bedevil, beige,
beleaguer, beset, besiege, bill, bill collector, bill of account,
bill of lading, blandish, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet,
buckskin, bug, buttonhole, cajole, calico pony, caliginous, call,
call in, check, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa,
cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, collection agent, credit man,
creditor, creditress, dapple-gray, debtee, demand payment, dim,
drab, dun-brown, dun-drab, dunner, dusk, dusky, ecru,
exert pressure, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, gloomy, gnaw, gray,
grege, grizzle, harass, hazel, importune, invoice, itemized bill,
khaki, lurid, manifest, mortgage-holder, mortgagee, murky, nag,
nag at, needle, note-holder, nut-brown, obscure, olive-brown,
olive-drab, paint, painted pony, pester, piebald, pinto, plague,
ply, press, pressure, push, reckoning, roan, score, seal,
seal-brown, send a statement, sepia, skewbald, snuff-colored,
somber, sorrel, statement, tab, tan, taupe, tawny, tease, toast,
toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, urge, walnut, walnut-brown,
wheedle, work on, yellowish-brown
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