obtuse

obtuse
adj
1. blunt, rounded, smooth, unpointed, unedged.
2. phlegmatic, sluggish, slow, torpid; dormant, stagnant, inactive, inert, passive; hebetudinous, lethargic, languid, listless; torporific, droopy, spiritless, leaden, heavy, vapid.
3. insensitive, insentient, imperceptive, impercipient, insensible, undiscerning; unfeeling, cold, cool, withdrawn; thick-skinned, callous, uncaring, unsympathetic; passionless, heartless, unemotional; stolid, impassive, unmoved, numb, apathetic; unobservant, inattentive, unconscious, unaware, blind, unseeing; uninterested, heedless, indifferent, unresponsive.
4. stupid, insensate, witless, irrational, Inf. dumb, dull, dull-witted; unintelligent, thick, dense, thickheaded, fatheaded, blockheaded, Sl. pinheaded, Sl. birdbrained, Sl. peabrained; vacuous, empty-headed, inane, brainless, foolish, Inf. dopey, not having the brains one was born with; slow-witted, dim-witted, backward, retarded, mentally retarded, simple-minded, simple; bovine, cloddish, doltish, boorish, oafish, lumpish, lubberly, loutish; ignorant, crass, Boeotian, gross; not having much upstairs, mutton-headed, Sl. goony, Sl. schmucky; out of it, out in left field, in the ozone, in orbit; moronic, boneheaded, dunderheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed.

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  • Obtuse — may refer to: Obtuse angle, an angle of between 90 and 180 degrees, Obtuse triangle, a triangle with an internal angle of between 90 and 180 degrees, leaf shape, Linguistic ambiguity, lacking sharpness or quickness of sensibility. This… …   Wikipedia

  • obtuse — [äb to͞os′, əbto͞os′; äbtyo͞os′, əbtyo͞os′] adj. [L obtusus, blunted, dull, pp. of obtundere: see OBTUND] 1. not sharp or pointed; blunt 2. greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees [an obtuse angle]: see ANGLE1 3. slow to understand or… …   English World dictionary

  • obtuse — (adj.) early 15c., from M.Fr. obtus (fem. obtuse), from L. obtusus blunted, dull, pp. of obtundere to beat against, make dull, from ob against (see OB (Cf. ob )) + tundere to beat, from PIE * (s)tud e to beat, strike, push, thrust, fr …   Etymology dictionary

  • obtuse — [adj1] slow to understand dense, dopey*, dull*, dumb, imperceptive, insensitive, opaque, slow on uptake*, stolid, thick, uncomprehending, unintelligent; concept 402 Ant. bright, intelligent, quick, smart obtuse [adj2] blunt, not sharp round,… …   New thesaurus

  • obtuse — I adjective asinine, blockish, blunt, blunt witted, callous, dense, doltish, dronish, dull, dull witted, hebes, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, imperceptive, impercipient, insensitive, lumpish, moronic, oafish, obtusus, opaque, phlegmatic, retusus …   Law dictionary

  • obtuse — *dull, blunt Analogous words: insensitive, Unsensible, anesthetic, impassible: stolid, phlegmatic, *impassive Antonyms: acute Contrasted words: *sharp, keen: sensitive, susceptible, open, exposed (see LIABLE) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • obtuse — ► ADJECTIVE 1) annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand. 2) (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°. 3) not sharp pointed or sharp edged; blunt. DERIVATIVES obtusely adverb obtuseness noun. ORIGIN Latin obtusus, from obtundere beat ag …   English terms dictionary

  • obtuse — [[t]əbtju͟ːs, AM tu͟ːs[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED Someone who is obtuse has difficulty understanding things, or makes no effort to understand them. [FORMAL] I ve really been very obtuse and stupid... I m a limited and obtuse clergyman while you re the… …   English dictionary

  • obtuse — adjective 1 slow to understand things, in a way that is annoying: an obtuse lout of a man | be obtuse (=pretend to not understand something): Is he being deliberately obtuse? 2 obtuse angle technical an angle between 90 and 180 degrees obtusely… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • obtuse — ● obtus, obtuse adjectif (latin obtusus) Qui manque de pénétration, de finesse ; borné : Une intelligence obtuse. Se dit d un angle géométrique dont l écart angulaire est compris strictement entre celui de l angle droit et celui de l angle plat.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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