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Meaning of 'obtuse'
Meaning of 'obtuse' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Obtuse 
[ superl.]
- Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles
greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. [ superl.]- Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.
- Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.
Meaning of 'obtuse' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. obtuse [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Example in sentence:
- although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick;
- dumb officials make some really dumb decisions;
- he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse;
- never met anyone quite so dim;
- so dense he never understands anything I say to him;
- worked with the slow students
Meaning (2):
- lacking in insight or discernment
- lacking in insight or discernment
Example in sentence:
- a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin;
- too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior
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