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blunt

Pronunciation: /blʌnt/

The English word “blunt” has 12 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

noun

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. A marijuana cigar.
  4. Money.
  5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

verb

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

Etymology

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to shut eyes, to doze”), related to blind (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde). Compare the Scandinavian-German munitons term blind (“non-live, dummy”), opposite of skarp (“live”, literally, “sharp”): Swedish and Danish blind patron (“dummy round”),…

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