Point-blank

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(forensics) Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (forensics) Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
2. (ballistics) The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.
3. Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.
4. In a direct manner, without hesitation.

Example Sentences

Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.

Heavily armed militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in rural Assam on Tuesday, pulling villagers from their homes and shooting them at point-blank range, witnesses said.

Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.

a point-blank assertion

At this point-blank denial, Stephen turned his face away decisively, and preserved an ominous silence; […]

Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question.

In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.

One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; […]

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