blunt
6 definitions found
blunt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Blunt \Blunt\, n.
1. A fencer's foil. [Obs.]
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2. A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
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3. Money. [Cant] --Beaconsfield.
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Blunt \Blunt\ (bl[u^]nt), a. [Cf. Prov. G. bludde a dull or
blunt knife, Dan. blunde to sleep, Sw. & Icel. blunda; or
perh. akin to E. blind.]
1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not
sharp.
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The murderous knife was dull and blunt. --Shak.
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2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; --
opposed to acute.
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His wits are not so blunt. --Shak.
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3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms
of civility; rough in manners or speech. "Hiding his
bitter jests in blunt behavior." "A plain, blunt man."
--Shak.
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4. Hard to impress or penetrate. [R.]
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I find my heart hardened and blunt to new
impressions. --Pope.
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Note: Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged,
blunt-sighted, blunt-spoken.
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Syn: Obtuse; dull; pointless; curt; short; coarse; rude;
brusque; impolite; uncivil.
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Blunt \Blunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blunted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blunting.]
1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to
make blunt. --Shak.
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2. To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of
the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or
susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
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blunt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
blunt
adj 1: having a broad or rounded end; "thick marks made by a
blunt pencil"
2: used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt
instrument"
3: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without
subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting";
"a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid
opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to
the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as
well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being
rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank
accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank,
free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank,
straight-from-the-shoulder]
4: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of
the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]
v 1: make less intense; "blunted emotions"
2: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn:
numb, benumb, blunt, dull]
3: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
[syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen]
4: make less sharp; "blunt the knives"
5: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor,
force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings";
"deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate,
enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up]
blunt - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Blunt, SD (city, FIPS 6180)
Location: 44.51547 N, 99.98797 W
Population (1990): 342 (172 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57522
blunt - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
308 Moby Thesaurus words for "blunt":
KO, abate, abrupt, affectless, aggressive, allay, alleviate,
anesthetize, anesthetized, arctic, artless, assuage, attemper,
attenuate, autistic, bank the fire, bate, bearish, beastly, bedaze,
benumb, besot, bluff, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, blur, born yesterday, brash,
brass, bread, brief, broad, brusque, cabbage, candid, catatonic,
cavalier, chasten, childlike, chill, chilly, chips, chloroform,
churlish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded, coldcock,
coldhearted, confiding, constrain, control, cool, cramp, cripple,
crusty, curt, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debilitate,
deflect, desensitize, deter, devitalize, dim, dim-witted, diminish,
dinero, direct, disable, disaffect, discourage, discourteous,
disedge, disincline, disinterest, dispassionate, distract, divert,
do-re-mi, dope, dopey, downplay, downright, draw the teeth, drug,
drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated,
dull-pointed, dull-witted, dulled, dullish, edgeless, efface,
emotionally dead, emotionless, enervate, enfeeble, etherize,
eviscerate, exhaust, explicit, extenuate, faired, fat-witted,
forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free hand, free-acting,
free-going, free-moving, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
freehanded, freeze, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, genuine,
gross-headed, gruel, gruff, guileless, harsh, heart-to-heart,
heartless, heavy, hebetate, hebetudinous, icy, immovable,
impassible, impassive, impolite, inconsiderate, indelicate,
indispose, inexcitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, insensitive,
insusceptible, jack, kayo, keep within bounds, knock out,
knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay low,
lay out, lenify, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modulate,
mollify, mull, naive, narcotize, nonemotional, numb, objective,
obscure, obtund, obtuse, open, openhearted, out of touch,
outspoken, palliate, palsy, paralyze, passionless, plain,
plain-spoken, play down, pointless, put off, put to sleep, quench,
rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, repel, repress, restrain,
retund, rough, round, rounded, rude, sap, self-absorbed, severe,
shake, shake up, sharp, short, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded,
sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, slacken, slow, slow down,
slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed, smother, snippety, snippy, sober,
sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, soulless, spiritless,
stifle, straight, straight-out, straightforward, stun, stupefy,
subdue, suppress, surly, tame, temper, thick-brained, thick-headed,
thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, thoughtless, tone down,
transparent, truculent, trustful, trusting, tune down, turn,
turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, unaffectionate,
unbrace, unceremonious, unchecked, uncivil, uncomplicated,
uncompromising, unconstrained, undermine, underplay, undiplomatic,
unedged, unemotional, unequivocal, unfeeling, ungracious,
unguarded, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unman,
unnerve, unpassionate, unpointed, unreserved, unresponding,
unresponsive, unrestrained, unsharp, unsharpened, unsophisticated,
unstrengthen, unstring, unsusceptible, unsuspicious, unsympathetic,
untouchable, unwary, weaken, wean from, wooden, worn
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