obtuse

Meaning

Adj

1. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
2. Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
3. (specifically) 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

Translations

stumpf

obtuso

obtus

ottuso

obtuso

stomp

obtús

toonloos

gesmoord

stupide

bot

αμβλύς

stompzinnig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əbˈtjuːs/

Etymology

From Middle English obtuse, from Latin obtūsus (“blunt, dull; obtuse”), past participle of obtundere, from obtundō (“to batter, beat, strike; to blunt, dull”), from ob- (“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.