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.
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”