Definitions for: Obtuse


[adj] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
[adj] lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
[adj] of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
[adj] of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex



Webster (1913) Definition: Ob*tuse" a. [Compar. Obtuser; superl. Obtusest.]
[L. obtusus, p. p. of obtundere to blunt: cf. F. obtus. See
Obtund.]
1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles
greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety
degrees.

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

3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. --Johnson.

Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, purblind, simple, slow, stupid, undiscerning, unsubdivided

Antonyms: acute

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