blunt

adj

/blʌnt/UK/blʊnt/

Etymology

Two possible origins: * From Anglo-Norman blunt (“blond”), a nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion. * From Middle English blunt (“dull, stupid”), a nickname for a stupid person.

derived from *blunt✻
inherited from blunt

Definitions

1
Having a thick edge or point
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
- 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. […].
2
Dull in understanding
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- His wits are not so blunt.
3
Abrupt in address
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
- a plain, blunt man
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1. 4
  Hard to impress or penetrate.
  - December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
2. Slow or deficient in feeling
  Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
3. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
4. A short needle with a strong point.
5. 8
  A marijuana cigar.
  - […] 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!”
6. 9
  Money.
  - Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[…]
7. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
8. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker
  To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
9. 12
  To repress or weaken
  To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
  - 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.
10. A surname transferred from the nickname.
11. A minor city in Hughes County, South Dakota, United States.

The neighborhood

synonymblunten
neighborbluntly
neighbordull

Derived

bluntable, blunten, blunt instrument, bluntish, bluntly, bluntness, bluntnose, blunt-nosed viper, bluntslide, blunt-witted, semiblunt

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blunt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at blunt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at blunt

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA