blunt

Meanings

Adjective

• Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
• Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
• Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
• Hard to impress or penetrate.
• Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

Noun

• A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
• A short needle with a strong point.
• A marijuana cigar.
• money
• A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

Verb

• To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
• To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

Related

Similar words

• dull, pointless, coarse
• stupid, obtuse
• curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh
• blunten

Origin

• From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).