Dullsville

noun

Dulls·​ville ˈdəlz-ˌvil 

variants or dullsville

plural Dullsvilles or dullsvilles

informal

: something or some place that is dull or boring

As anyone who's ever held a mind-numbing job can tell you, idleness can be downright soul-destroying. So what's a worker trapped in Dullsville to do?

—Wency Leung

Are [the cities] Snellville and Braselton a pair of dullsvilles? At least one website thinks so …

—Curt Yeomans

… jumping rope offers a wealth of benefits. But for many of us, more than a few minutes of this repetitive activity is a one-way ticket to Dullsville. [=is extremely boring]

—Shape

dullsville adjective

or less commonly Dullsville

The party was dullsville.

a Dullsville job

Synonyms

• bore
• drag
• drip
• droner
• nudnik
• nudnick
• snooze
• snoozer
• yawn
• yawner

Examples of Dullsville in a Sentence

that book is totally dullsville—you'll be asleep by page three

Recent Examples on the Web

Pure dullsville in Van Nuys. —Boris Dralyuk, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021

Speaking of winds, attempting to surf off Galveston in the summertime is dullsville. —Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2020

Next, if things remain dullsville, Anton Blidh could draw into the lineup. —Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1960, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing Dullsville

• a one-way ticket to Dullsville