meaning of blunt
1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
5. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
6. 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.
7. A fencers foil.
8. A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
9. Money.
10. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a
">sound"
Related Words
blunt | blunt file | blunt trauma | blunt-leaf heath | blunt-witted | blunted | blunting | bluntish | bluntly | bluntness |
