blunt
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
smoking
Etymology: 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).
Inflected forms:
form: blunter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bluntest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
pos: adj
examples: The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
gloss: Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: His wits are not so blunt.
gloss: Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
a plain, blunt man
gloss: Hard to impress or penetrate.
pos: adj
examples: December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
gloss: Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
pos: adj
gloss: A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A short needle with a strong point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A marijuana cigar.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: […] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
uncountable
examples: Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[…]
gloss: A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
pos: verb
gloss: To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: It blunted my appetite.
My feeling towards her have been blunted.
That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.
Synonyms: blunten
Related words: bluntly
dull
Derived words: bluntable
blunten
blunt instrument
bluntish
bluntly
bluntness
bluntnose
blunt-nosed viper
bluntslide
blunt-witted
semiblunt
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