Blunt vs. Obtuse

By Jaxson

  • Blunt (adjective)

    Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

  • Blunt (adjective)

    Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

  • Blunt (adjective)

    Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

    “the blunt admission that he had never liked my company”

  • Blunt (adjective)

    Hard to impress or penetrate.

  • Blunt (adjective)

    Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

  • Blunt (noun)

    A fencer’s practice foil with a soft tip.

  • Blunt (noun)

    A short needle with a strong point.

  • Blunt (noun)

    A marijuana cigar.

  • Blunt (noun)

    money

  • Blunt (noun)

    A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

  • Blunt (verb)

    To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

  • Blunt (verb)

    To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

    “It blunted my appetite.”

    “My feeling towards her have been blunted.”

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    ; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    One that is larger than one and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    Intellectually dull or dim-witted.

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    Indirect or circuitous.

  • Obtuse (verb)

    To dull or state.

Wiktionary
  • Obtuse (adjective)

    annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

    “he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse”

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    difficult to understand, especially deliberately so

    “some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse”

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°

    “an obtuse angle of 150°”

  • Obtuse (adjective)

    not sharp-pointed or sharp-edged; blunt

    “it had strange obtuse teeth”

Oxford Dictionary

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