blunt

adj

1. dull, rounded, not sharp, unpointed, edgeless, unsharpened, thick.

2. abrupt, curt, short, brusque; frank, candid, open, direct, outspoken, plain-spoken; plain, downright, unvarnished, straightforward; bluff, burly, brash, bold, brazen, barefaced, insolent, impudent; sharp, keen, trenchant, acrimonious, caustic, stinging, cutting, biting, piercing, stringent; brutal, cruel; churlish, bearish, gruff; inconsiderate, tactless, blustering; rude, uncivil, unceremonious, ungracious, discourteous, impolite, unmannerly.

3. dull, dim-witted, stupid, slow, thick, stolid, dense; insensitive, obtuse, unperceiving; unseeing, unobserv-ing, inattentive.

v

4. dull, round, soften, take the edge off of.

5. numb, stupefy, deaden, obtund; weaken, impair, devitalize; anesthetize, tranquilize, pacify, appease, soothe, mollify.