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Blunt
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- 1 Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
"The murderous knife was dull and blunt."
- 2 Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
"His wits are not so blunt."
- 3 Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
"I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company."
- 4 Hard to impress or penetrate.
"December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions."
- 5 Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- 1 devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment wordnet
- 2 characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion wordnet
- 3 used of a knife or other blade; not sharp wordnet
- 4 having a broad or rounded end wordnet
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A minor city in Hughes County, South Dakota, United States. countable, uncountable
- 1 A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. countable, uncountable
- 2 A short needle with a strong point. countable, uncountable
- 3 A marijuana cigar. US, countable, slang, uncountable
"[…] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”"
- 4 Money. UK, archaic, slang, uncountable
"Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[…]"
- 5 A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave. countable, uncountable
- 1 To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- 2 make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation wordnet
- 3 To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of figuratively
"It blunted my appetite."
- 4 make less sharp wordnet
- 5 make less intense wordnet
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- 6 make dull or blunt wordnet
- 7 make numb or insensitive wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).
Two possible origins: * From Anglo-Norman blunt (“blond”), a nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion. * From Middle English blunt (“dull, stupid”), a nickname for a stupid person.
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