blunt

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

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.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
2. (countable, uncountable) A short needle with a strong point.
3. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) A marijuana cigar.
4. (UK, archaic, slang, uncountable) Money.
5. (countable, uncountable) A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

Verb

1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

Conceptos

embotado

obtuso

romo

despuntar

embotar

desafilado

arromar

brusco

desafilar

franco

abrupto

crudo

basto

tosco

despuntado

mocho

directo

torpe

deslucir

insensible

sin filo

acantilado

adormecer

apacible

campestre

desabrido

dulce

embargar

escarpado

firme

mitigar

porro

rústico

sincero

sordo

suave

suavizar

Sinónimos

dull

obtuse

curt

brusque

not sharp

frank

make blunt

crude

outspoken

pointless

stupid

abrupt

short

allay

candid

stark

blunted

plainspoken

rough

straightforward

⬆️

cold

🥶

flat

unsharpened

bluff

uncouth

dulled

point-blank

plump

straight-from-the-shoulder

direct

rude

harsh

free-spoken

bare

numb

foolish

forthright

deaden

steep

bald

curve

abate

coarse

soften

raw

benumb

offhand

bend

plain

honest

Traducciones

émoussé

stumpf

bot

spuntato

stomp

smussato

obtuso

abstumpfen

embotado

cego

yassi

obtus

αμβλύνω

bot maken

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/blʌnt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: blunt

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: blunda

Cognado con islandés: blunda

Cognado con sueco: blunda

Cognado con danés: blunde

Heredado de inglés medio: blunten

In summary

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).