FromMiddle English blunt blont Old English *blunt North Germanic Old Norse blunda ( “ to doze ” ) ( >Icelandic blunda Swedish blunda Danish blunde ) .
blunt (comparative blunter superlative bluntest
Having athick edge orpoint ; notsharp .c. 1593 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: [ … ] ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act IV, scene iv] :The murderous knife was dull andblunt .
1944 Miles Burton ,The Three Corpse Trick The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with ablunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
Dull understanding ;slow ofdiscernment ;opposed toacute .1598–1599 William Shakespeare , “Much Adoe about Nothing ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene v] :His wits are not soblunt .
Abrupt address ;plain ;unceremonious ;wanting in the forms ofcivility ;rough inmanners orspeech .I was taken aback by theblunt admission that he had never liked my company.
1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene ii] :a plain,blunt man
Hard impress orpenetrate .Slow deficient infeeling :insensitive .( having a thick edge or point ) : dull pointless coarse obtuse ( dull in understanding ) : stupid obtuse ( abrupt in address ) : curt short rude brusque impolite uncivil harsh robust having a thick edge or point, not sharp
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dull in understanding; slow of discernment
abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious
Arabic:please add this translation if you can Bulgarian:рязък (bg) ( rjazǎk ) ,безцеремонен (bg) ( bezceremonen ) Chinese:Mandarin:please add this translation if you can Dutch:bot (nl) Esperanto:please add this translation if you can Estonian:otsekohene Finnish:suorasukainen (fi) French:abrupt (fr) Galician:ríspeto brusco (gl) German:ungehobelt (de) ,unverblümt (de) Hindi:मुँहफट (hi) ( mũhphaṭ ) Japanese:ストレート (ja) ( sutorēto ) Macedonian:груб ( grub ) ,на́гол ( nágol ) ,о́тсечен ( ótsečen ) ,о́стар ( óstar ) Polish:bezceremonialny (pl) Portuguese:brusco (pt) Russian:гру́бый (ru) ( grúbyj ) Sicilian:schittu francu Spanish:brusco (es) ,franco (es) ,directo (es) ,terminante Tamil:அப்பட்டம் (ta) ( appaṭṭam ) ,அப்பட்டமான ( appaṭṭamāṉa ) Thai:ทื่อ (th) ( tʉ̂ʉ ) Welsh:di-flewyn-ar-dafod (cy) ,plaen (cy) ,diseremoni
hard to impress or penetrate
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blunt (countable anduncountable plural blunts
Afencer 's practicefoil with a soft tip. A shortneedle with a strongpoint . ( smoking , slang , US ) marijuana cigar .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette 2004 Martin Torgoff , “The Temple of Accumulated Error”, inCan’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000 Simon & Schuster ,→ISBN page461 :[ …] blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
( UK , slang , archaic , uncountable ) Money Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money Aplayboating move resembling acartwheel performed on awave . short needle with a strong point
cigar filled with marijuana
FromMiddle English blunten blonten
blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts present participle blunting simple past and past participle blunted
Todull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. ( figuratively ) Itblunted my appetite.
My feeling towards her have beenblunted .
2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, inBBC [1] That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did notblunt the home side's spirit.
2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, inRAIL , number964 , page 3:I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has beenblunted .
to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker
“blunt ”, inCollins English Dictionary “blunt ”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster , 1996–present. “blunt ”, inLexico Dictionary.com ;Oxford University Press ,2019–2022 “blunt ”, inCambridge English Dictionary , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press , 1999–present. FromFrankish *blund Proto-Germanic *blundaz Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-
blunt m oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde
alternative form ofblont Unadapted borrowing fromEnglish blunt
IPA (key ) : /ˈblant/ Rhymes:-ant Syllabification:blunt blunt m animal
( slang ) alternative spelling ofblant blunt inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANblunt in Polish dictionaries at PWNUnadapted borrowing fromEnglish blunt
blunt m plural blunts
blunt ( a marijuana cigar ) According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
