obtuse

Meaning

Adj

1. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
2. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
3. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
4. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
5. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
6. Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
7. Indirect or circuitous.

Verb

To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

Synonyms

dull

blunt

stupid

slow

dumb

foolish

pointless

dense

dull-witted

slow-witted

idiotic

unsharpened

purblind

silly

sluggish

thickheaded

dim

flat

obtuse angle

dazed

imperceptive

unpointed

truncate

unappealing

uncool

unenlivened

unexciting

uninteresting

unlikeable

witless

ho-hum

unlikable

juiceless

unanimated

unstimulating

blunt-nosed

blunt angle

blunted

daft

doltish

drab

drear

dreary

humdrum

imbecilic

inactive

insensible

insensitive

mutilated

narrow

nondescript

opaque

oscitant

poky

round

stodgy

thick

Hyphenated as

ob‧tuse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əbˈtjuːs/

Etymology

From Middle French obtus (“obtuse (geometry); narrow-minded, obtuse; boring, dull, lifeless”), from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“prefix meaning against”) (see ob-) + tundō (“to beat, strike; to bruise, crush, pound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to hit; to push”)). More at obtund.