The difference between Blunt and Obtuse

When used as verbs, blunt means to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker, whereas obtuse means to dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

When used as adjectives, blunt means having a thick edge or point, whereas obtuse means .

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 Obtuse

  1. Blunt as an adjective:

    Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

  2. Blunt as an adjective:

    Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

  3. 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"

  4. Blunt as an adjective:

    Hard to impress or penetrate.

  5. Blunt as an adjective:

    Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

  1. Blunt as a noun:

    A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

  2. Blunt as a noun:

    A short needle with a strong point.

  3. Blunt as a noun (smoking):

    A marijuana cigar.

  4. Blunt as a noun (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable):

    money

  5. Blunt as a noun:

    A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

  1. Blunt as a verb:

    To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

  2. 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."

  1. Obtuse as an adjective (now, chiefly, botany, zoology):

    ; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. Blunt, or rounded at the extremity. One that is larger than one and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90 and less than 180. , having an obtuse angle.

  2. Obtuse as an adjective:

    Intellectually dull or dim-witted.

  3. Obtuse as an adjective:

    Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.

  4. Obtuse as an adjective:

    Indirect or circuitous.

  1. Obtuse as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.

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