The difference between Blunt and Curt
When used as verbs, blunt means to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker, whereas curt means to cut, cut short, shorten.
When used as adjectives, blunt means having a thick edge or point, whereas curt means brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
Blunt is also noun with the meaning: a fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blunt and Curt
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Blunt as an adjective:
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
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Blunt as an adjective:
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
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Blunt as an adjective:
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
Examples:
"the blunt admission that he had never liked my company"
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Blunt as an adjective:
Hard to impress or penetrate.
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Blunt as an adjective:
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
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Blunt as a noun:
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
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Blunt as a noun:
A short needle with a strong point.
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Blunt as a noun (smoking):
A marijuana cigar.
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Blunt as a noun (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable):
money
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Blunt as a noun:
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
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Blunt as a verb:
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
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Blunt as a verb (figuratively):
To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
Examples:
"It blunted my appetite."
"My feeling towards her have been blunted."
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Curt as an adjective:
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
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Curt as an adjective:
Short or concise.
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Curt as a verb (obsolete, rare):
To cut, cut short, shorten.