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obtuse

[uhb-toos, -tyoos] / əbˈtus, -ˈtyus /


ADJECTIVE
blunt, not sharp
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Antonyms


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Obtuse, self-pitying, domineering, obsessive, hypocritical, opinionated, exacting, intolerant, selfish, malevolent, deluded, manic�in fact, just about every pejorative word in the language could be applied to Lucy Nelson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Obtuse as most men are, with things going on right under their eyes, it is not easy to baffle them when once their curiosity is roused.

From Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." by Wren, Jenny

Obtuse is applied to any of these figures that is not very decided.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

Obtuse as lovers usually are, it never occurred to him that this was one of the best of symptoms in his favour!

From The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Mullins, Isla May

An oblique angle is either Obtuse or Acute.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William




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