Blunt

/blʌnt/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a thick edge or point; not sharp..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
6. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
7. A short needle with a strong point.
8. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.

Example Sentences

The murderous knife was dull and blunt.

The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

His wits are not so blunt.

I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.

a plain, blunt man

December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.

[…] 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!”

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• blunter
• bluntest
• blunts
• blunting
• blunted

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