OBTUSE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Obtuse

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɑbtˈus/ Listen

Obtuse

adjective

(compar. obtuser; superl. obtusest)

Of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees.

(of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex.

Lacking in insight or discernment. Synonym: purblind. "A purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"

Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, slow. "Never met anyone quite so dim" , "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick" , "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions" , "He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse" , "Worked with the slow students"

See more definitions of Obtuse...

See images of 'Obtuse'

Antonyms of 'Obtuse'

Etymology of 'Obtuse'

Related searches:

obtuse angle

obtuse leaf

obtuse triangle

obtuse-angled triangle

obtuseness

Share |

"Obtuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... miniature whirlpools, as the tide poured up from the south. And beyond the river the strong circuit of the walls, and within, the city glittered like a charming piece of mosaic. He freed himself from the obtuse modern view of towns as places where human beings live and make money and rejoice or suffer, for from the standpoint of the moment such facts were wholly impertinent. He knew perfectly well that for his present purpose the tawny sheen and shimmer ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... in some sort the more evident because he possessed in large measure a certain relieving element, in which those who are eminent in that character are very deficient. Generally such persons have but obtuse senses: we are prone to attribute the purity of their conduct to the dullness of their sensations. Milton had no such obtuseness: he had every opportunity for knowing the "world of eye and ear";[12] you cannot open his ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... up the loads, and set forth with unusual energy in the direction I had pointed out. We followed a parallel line to the high flat plateau on the other side of the stream, the slopes of which, in relation to the plain we were standing on, were at an obtuse angle of about 115 deg.. The snow-covered plateau extended from S.W. to N.E. Beyond it to the N. could be seen some high snowy peaks, in all probability the lofty summits S.E. of Gartok. At the point where the ...

— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... talked Lowland Scotch. But Scott has anticipated these cavils in the eighteenth chapter of the second volume. Certainly no Lowlander knew the Highlanders better than he did, and his ear for dialect was as keen as his musical ear was confessedly obtuse. Scott had the best means of knowing whether Helen MacGregor would be likely to soar into heroics as she is apt to do. In fact, here "we ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... not be supposed that the thousand-odd persons who composed this remarkable ship's company were so hard-hearted, so selfish, so forgetful, so morally obtuse, that they never thought of the real horror of their situation, and of the awful calamity that had overwhelmed so many millions of their fellow-creatures. They thought of all that only too seriously and in spite of themselves. The women especially were overwhelmed ...

— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

More quotes...