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Blunt (adjective)
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
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Blunt (adjective)
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
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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”
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Blunt (adjective)
Hard to impress or penetrate.
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Blunt (adjective)
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
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Blunt (noun)
A fencer’s practice foil with a soft tip.
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Blunt (noun)
A short needle with a strong point.
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Blunt (noun)
A marijuana cigar.
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Blunt (noun)
money
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Blunt (noun)
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
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Blunt (verb)
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
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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.”
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Obtuse (adjective)
; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
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Obtuse (adjective)
Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
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Obtuse (adjective)
One that is larger than one and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
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Obtuse (adjective)
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
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Obtuse (adjective)
Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
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Obtuse (adjective)
Indirect or circuitous.
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Obtuse (verb)
To dull or state.
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Obtuse (adjective)
annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
“he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse”
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Obtuse (adjective)
difficult to understand, especially deliberately so
“some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse”
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Obtuse (adjective)
(of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°
“an obtuse angle of 150°”
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Obtuse (adjective)
not sharp-pointed or sharp-edged; blunt
“it had strange obtuse teeth”