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adj
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
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 a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
His wits are not so blunt.
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
a plain, blunt man
Hard to impress or penetrate.
December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
noun
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
A short needle with a strong point.
A marijuana cigar.
[…] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
Money.
Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[…]
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
verb
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
It blunted my appetite.
My feeling towards her have been blunted.