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Blunt   /blənt/   Listen
adjective
Blunt  adj.  
1.
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. "The murderous knife was dull and blunt."
2.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; opposed to acute. "His wits are not so blunt."
3.
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. "Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior." "A plain, blunt man."
4.
Hard to impress or penetrate. (R.) "I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions." Note: Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged, blunt-sighted, blunt-spoken.
Synonyms: Obtuse; dull; pointless; curt; short; coarse; rude; brusque; impolite; uncivil.


verb
Blunt  v. t.  (past & past part. blunted; pres. part. blunting)  
1.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
2.
To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.


noun
Blunt  n.  
1.
A fencer's foil. (Obs.)
2.
A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
3.
Money. (Cant)





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"Blunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... go put dese greens on. My husband will kill me if he don't find no supper ready. Here come Mrs. Blunt. She oughter feel like a penny's worth of have-mercy wid all dis ...
— The Mule-Bone: - A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts • Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes
... unearthly fury. Continually recurring, shock, mellay and rally overlapped, attack and repulse were inextricably mingled, the very lulls between the paroxysms were big with wrath. There was a point, too, where the river's bank became coastline, a blunt corner of land, which seemed to exasperate the sea out of all reason. A stiff breeze abetting them, the gigantic waves crashed upon it with a concussion that shook the air. All the royal rage of Ocean seemed to be concentrated on this little prominence. The latter's indifference appeared ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... not think of her at all. Be assured her ill-natured shafts will fall as blunt and harmless upon the noble well-tried armour of my uncle's Christian character, as a bombardment of cambric needles against the fortress of Cronstadt. How rapidly Regina has grown, since she came among us? Her complexion ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... and prudential understanding of the Hebrew, the aesthetic subtilty of the Greek, the legal breadth and sensual recklessness of the Roman, the martial frenzy of the Goth, the chivalric and dark pride of the Spaniard, the treacherous blood of the Italian, the mercurial vanity of the Frenchman, the blunt realism of the Englishman. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various
... Nevertheless, he kept away from them all absolutely. This was a matter he must settle with himself alone, a battle to be fought out in silence and with himself as sole antagonist. A ring of commenting spectators, applauding while they looked on, could only blunt the point of his attacks which, to be final, must be ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray


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