Meaning of OBTUSE
| Pronunciation: | | ub'toos
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- [adj] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
- [adj] lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
- [adj] of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- [adj] of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex
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| | Synonyms: | | dense, dim, dull, dumb, purblind, simple, slow, stupid, undiscerning, unsubdivided |
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| | Antonyms: | | acute | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ob*tuse"\ a. [Compar. {Obtuser}; superl. {Obtusest}.]
[L. obtusus, p. p. of obtundere to blunt: cf. F. obtus. See
{Obtund}.]
1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles
greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety
degrees.
2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid;
as, obtuse senses. --Milton.
3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. --Johnson.
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| | Definition: | | Blunt or rounded at the apex, the converging edges separated by an angle greater than 90 degrees. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abrupt, affectless, anesthetized, arctic, asleep, autistic, benumbed, bluff, blunt, blunted, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, bluntish, blunt-pointed, blunt-witted, boneheaded, callous, catatonic, chill, chilly, cloddish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, dead, deadened, dense, dim, dim-witted, dispassionate, doltish, dopey, drugged, dull, dull of mind, dulled, dull-edged, dull-headed, dullish, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted, edgeless, emotionally dead, emotionless, faired, fat-witted, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, gross-headed, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, icy, immovable, impassible, impassive, imperceptive, impercipient, inexcitable, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, loutish, lumpish, mentally retarded, nonemotional, numb, numbed, oafish, obdurate, objective, out of touch, passionless, pointless, rounded, self-absorbed, simple, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed, soulless, spiritless, stolid, thick, thick-brained, thickheaded, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-skinned, thickskulled, thick-witted, unaffectionate, unedged, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate, unperceptive, unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unsharp, unsharpened, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, wooden |
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