blunted

4 definitions found

blunted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  blunted \blunted\ adj.
     1. made dull or blunt.
  
     Syn: dulled.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. reduced in force or effectiveness.
        [PJC]

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

blunted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blunted
      adj 1: made dull or blunt [syn: blunted, dulled]

blunted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "blunted":
     abrupt, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
     bluntish, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish,
     edgeless, faired, obtuse, pointless, rounded, smoothed, unedged,
     unpointed, unsharp, unsharpened