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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.
- 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]
Meaning (1):
- 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
Meaning (2):
- 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

Nearby Words:

obtain obtainable obtained obtainer obtaining obtainment obtected obtemper obtemperate obtend

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