Obtuse

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obtuse \Ob*tuse"\ a. [Compar. {Obtuser}; superl. {Obtusest}.]
     [L. obtusus, p. p. of obtundere to blunt: cf. F. obtus. See
     {Obtund}.]
     1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles
        greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety
        degrees.


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     2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; not alert,
        especially to the feelings of others; dull; stupid; as,
        obtuse senses. --Milton.
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     3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. --Johnson.
        [1913 Webster] Obtuse-angled

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obtuse
       adj 1: of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees [ant: {acute}]
       2: of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex
       3: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the
          implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that
          flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to
          the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: {purblind}]
       4: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
          "so dense he never understands anything I say to him";
          "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at
          classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly
          quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb
          decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being
          deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
          [syn: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb}, {slow}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "obtuse":
     abrupt, affectless, anesthetized, arctic, asleep, autistic,
     benumbed, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
     blunt-witted, blunted, bluntish, boneheaded, callous, catatonic,
     chill, chilly, cloddish, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded,
     coldhearted, cool, dead, deadened, dense, dim, dim-witted,
     dispassionate, doltish, dopey, drugged, dull, dull of mind,
     dull-edged, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-pointed, dull-witted,
     dulled, dullish, edgeless, emotionally dead, emotionless, faired,
     fat-witted, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen, gross-headed,
     heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, icy, immovable, impassible,
     impassive, imperceptive, impercipient, inexcitable, insensate,
     insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, loutish,
     lumpish, mentally retarded, nonemotional, numb, numbed, oafish,
     obdurate, objective, out of touch, passionless, pointless, rounded,
     self-absorbed, simple, slow, slow-witted, sluggish, smoothed,
     soulless, spiritless, stolid, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed,
     thick-pated, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickheaded,
     thickskulled, unaffectionate, unedged, unemotional, unfeeling,
     unfelt, unimpassioned, unimpressionable, unloving, unpassionate,
     unperceptive, unpointed, unresponding, unresponsive, unsharp,
     unsharpened, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, wooden