obtuse

Speech parts

1. obtuse - Adjective

2. obtuse - Verb

4. obtuse - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.

Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dense dull dim slow thick blunt dumb purblind dim-witted daft simple blinder blind rounded ignorant
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Antonyms

acute sharp bright intelligent smart quick-witted
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Phrases with the word

isosceles obtuse triangle obtuse sandfish obtuse-angled equilateral triangle obtuse-angled isosceles triangle

Examples

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty. R. S. Thomas

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid. Iain Banks

Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader. John Updike

It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse, that distinguishes in order to divide. In the former, we may contemplate the source of superstition and idolatry; in the latter of schism, heresy! and a seditious and sectarian spirit. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Just as the reverent man prays without uttering words, and the Lord hears him, the sensitive painter paints, and the sensitive man understands and recognizes him, but even the more obtuse carry away something from his work. Caspar David Friedrich

It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned. Murray Leinster

Close letter words and terms

obturbinate obtusangular obtusaquinone obtuse angle obtuse horn shell obtuse leaf